Birds are inextricably linked to feathers, which allow them to fly, keep warm and put on dramatic displays. Feathers, however ...

Back in 2015, experts recovered the fossilized remains from the Lower Jurassic Lufeng Formation of Yunnan Province, China.

To account for the numerous gaps in the fossil record, they treated the parts of the world where fossils have not been ...

Learn how the extinction of dinosaurs around 66 million years ago caused seeds to grow larger, filling in an important piece ...

Between 122 and 108 million years ago, the Australian landmass was much farther south than today. Victoria was positioned ...

The bird has a short tail ending in a pygostyle, an important aerodynamic innovation moving the center of mass forward toward ...

Does a duck always look like a duck and quack like a duck? Sixty-six million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period, ...

Pinpointing when birds diverged completely from dinosaurs has long remained a paleontological mystery.

Volunteer fossil hunters and trained paleontologists uncover a new Australian dinosaur and the oldest known megaraptorid.

A U.K. fossil tour guide discovered a rare purple dinosaur footprint imprinted in clay on the coast of the Isle of Wight on ...

KUNMING: Chinese scientists have identified a new species of Early Jurassic sauropod dinosaur, named Xingxiulong yueorum, ...

This discovery strengthens the idea that birds had already begun to diversify by the late Jurassic period. The presence of ...