Archaeopteryx, long considered the earliest fossil bird, could be knocked off its perch by Baminornis zhenghensis, which ...

Tinier theropods may have found it easier to adapt to different resources—such as habitats or prey—than their larger kin. “It would ... Experts from the Women’s Brain Foundation and bit.bio will ...

The specimen offers compelling evidence that behaviors critical for hatching in modern birds may have originated much earlier in the evolutionary lineage of non-avian theropods. Preserved in ...

But it’s not as far-fetched as it seems. Both belong to a group of dinosaurs known as theropods, a clade characterized by hollow bones and three-toed limbs. Advances in paleontology and ...

No alternative hypothesis has been offered to explain the multiple similarities between birds and theropods, however, and there is scant evidence to support a link to any of the other animals that ...