The thought of dinosaurs usually brings to mind huge, hulking creatures of the past. But not all dinosaurs were large. Some ...

That's partly because birds, then as now ... evolution may have gotten started in a common ancestor of pterodactyls and dinosaurs—nearly 240 million years ago, or some 95 million years before ...

Archaeopteryx represents a pivotal point in the grand evolutionary journey linking dinosaurs to their avian ... valuable insights into the ancient dino-bird—paleontologists are particularly ...

In 1993, Jurassic Park showed us what dinosaurs might have looked like on a movie screen. Now Jurassic World is in cinemas, so we went to see it with Michael Pittman, who saw Jurassic Park as a ...

These feathers aided in flight. Archaeopteryx lived 150 million years ago. It had features of both dinosaurs and birds. The fossil shows it could fly. This discovery helps understand bird evolution.

What's more, this rule even describes beak shape in the long-gone ancestors of birds—the dinosaurs. We are excited to share our findings, now published in the journal iScience. By studying beaks ...

“This indicates that such behaviour in modern birds first evolved and originated among their dinosaur ancestors,” said Ma. An alternative to tucking might have been something closer to what is ...