Modern birds are the living relatives of dinosaurs. Take a look at the features of flightless birds like chickens and ...

“Over millions of years, some feathers evolved into the more complex structures that enabled dinosaurs to fly, including some that weren’t on the ancestral line that led to birds.” Fossils of the ...

Dinosaurs are the extinct relatives of birds that roamed the lands and seas of ancient Earth. They first appeared around 240 ...

Scientists uncovered a 149-million-year-old bird fossil in southeastern China with unexpectedly modern traits they believe could rewrite the evolutionary history of birds.

Scientists have discovered the oldest known cerapodan dinosaur fossil in Morocco, discovered back 168 million years.

Scientists suggest that bigger brains in bird ancestors led to more flexible skulls, playing a key role in their evolution.

Feathers, however, predate birds—having first belonged to extinct dinosaurs. Finding out exactly when feathers evolved, and which animals had them, could offer important new insights into the ...

A newly studied Vegavis iaai skull from Antarctica confirms that modern bird lineages, like ducks and geese, were evolving alongside non-avian dinosaurs. This study supports Vegavis' placement in the ...

Ancient mammals that lived in the time of dinosaurs were mostly the same dark-brown colour, according to a new study ...

A 2023 study found that "neither troodon nor any other dinosaur could have begun a primate-like lineage that evolved to a human level of intelligence." That said, modern-day birds show that ...