Early birds retained many dinosaur features ... The chicken is just one branch on this vast evolutionary tree, but its story is among the most compelling. When a massive asteroid struck Earth ...

Now, a newly discovered fossil of a bird-like dinosaur could answer some evolutionary questions ... to have flown or spent their time in trees, but the fujianvenator prodigiosus is believed ...

The Chicago Archaeopteryx provides rare 3D insights into skull evolution, soft tissue structure, and the first evidence of ...

Dinosaurs were once the undisputed giants of the planet, and their family tree is surprisingly ... and it gave birds a dramatic evolutionary advantage. The development of wings, lightweight ...

Birds are the only dinosaur lineage that survived ... journey to unravel the mysteries of bird evolution. According to this updated bird family tree, a group containing flamingos and grebes ...

NARRATOR: This tree allows Erich to see exactly where ... For 20 years this was the only snag in the dinosaur-bird evolution theory. Where did feathers come from? ♪ ♪ In Liaoning, China ...

Scientists say a 220-million-year-old tree lizard is the oldest ... because no one then was suggesting an evolutionary link between dinosaurs and birds. Jones and his colleagues were finally ...

Newly discovered feathers were crucial to how Archaeopteryx was able to fly. Archaeopteryx is the fossil that helped confirm ...

[Related: Dinosaurs may have evolved into birds, but early flights ... The updated bird family tree delineating 93 million years of evolutionary relationships between 363 bird species.

The last several decades has seen advancements both in the technology used to bring dinosaurs and other extinct animals to ...

Somewhere in Earth’s past, some branches on the tree of life ... is known only in birds. Birds and crocodilians are archosaurs, the living relatives of non-avian dinosaurs and pterosaurs.