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New fossil scans reveal that a tiny wrist bone in dinosaurs may have set the stage for the evolution of bird flight.
Tracks of dinosaur footprints can hint at how fast the extinct animals moved. Here’s how guinea fowl can help fact-check those assumptions.
Despite how we usually depict them, the hilarious truth is that many dinosaurs who once roamed our Earth, did so with a ...
Scientists have uncovered a surprising piece of the puzzle in the evolution of flight: a tiny wrist bone in certain dinosaurs ...
Cranial kinesis allows modern birds to eat a wider variety of foods and use their beaks as multifunctional tools.
Imagine the sound of a dinosaur roaring... Super loud, right? Wrong... It turns out the giant prehistoric creatures almost ...
It’s fortunate for us there are no giant meat-eating birds, but you must admit it would be rather cool, at least if their ...
When you picture a dinosaur, what does it look like? For Jingmai O'Connor, paleobiologist and associate curator of reptiles at the Field Museum of... Birds are dinosaurs. Here's how scientists ...
How did dinosaurs become birds—and what good is half a wing? How did dinosaurs become birds—and what good is half a wing? Join Joe and a few brave chickens as they recreate a brilliant ...
The famed Lord of the Rings director has donated his money and his bones to make a legend come to life with Colossal ...
Fossils reveal how birds survived the killer asteroid and became today’s only living dinosaurs.