Feathers are among the most complex cutaneous appendages in the animal kingdom. While their evolutionary origin has been ...

Cranial kinesis allows modern birds to eat a wider variety of foods and use their beaks as multifunctional tools.

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

Studies of the horns, spikes, plates and clubs of dinosaurs could help settle a long-standing debate over their function ...

Researchers emphasize that this fossil confirms that cerapodan dinosaurs underwent diversification well before the Cretaceous ...

Large birds -- our closest relations to dinosaurs -- are capable of technical innovation, by solving a physical task to gain access to food. Large birds -- our closest relations to dinosaurs ...

Millions of years before modern birds evolved, their dinosaur ancestors were soaring through the air. Scientists are piecing together how these iconic reptiles took to the skies. Fossils reveal that ...

Large birds called palaeognaths–the closest living relatives of dinosaurs–are considered more simple. However, a small study found that some large birds are also capable of innovation.

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 ...

Among the pines, dinosaurs hunted. Bird-footed southern raptors fossicked in the shallows for fish, and mid-sized megaraptorids with curved claws and toothy grins. This picture has always seemed ...