More than 99% of birds can fly. But that still leaves many species that evolved to be flightless, including penguins, ...
Dinosaur extinction shaped fruit evolution, influencing diets and ecosystems, including those of human ancestors.
The fossil at the center of the discovery is a well-preserved sacrum of an Edmontosaurus, a duck-billed dinosaur ... which could lead to a deeper understanding of dinosaur evolution and relationships.
Fossils of the world’s oldest megaraptorid and the first-ever carcharodontosaurs in Australia have been discovered, ...
Among the many unique qualities of this long-extinct Antarctic bird, it seems to have been the earliest creature that could ...
An artistic depiction of the Late Cretaceous modern (crown) bird, Vegavis iaai, pursuit diving for fish in the shallow ocean ...
With its glaciers and sub-zero temperatures, Antarctica hardly seems like a place of refuge. However, the now icy continent ...
Scientists discover intact bone collagen in dinosaur fossils, challenging conventional wisdom about organic preservation.
“At first glance, the darker forest understory caused by dinosaur extinctions may seem unimportant, but it could have directly led to the evolution of our fruit-eating primate ancestors," study ...
CCTV Chinese scientists have discovered one of the world's oldest bird fossils of Baminornis zhenghensis in East China's Fujian Province, which is also the only confirmed Jurassic avian to date, and ...
NARRATOR: But exactly how this spectacular evolution took place ... but actually some dinosaurs, like Stegosaurs and duck-billed dinosaurs, actually secondarily evolved to be cold-blooded ...
The skull is from Vegavis iaai, an extinct duck-like bird that lived ... answer a big open question in bird evolution: Did it take the demise of non-avian dinosaurs for modern birds to diversify ...