Feathers are among the most complex cutaneous appendages in the animal kingdom. While their evolutionary origin has been ...

Cranial kinesis allows modern birds to eat a wider variety of foods and use their beaks as multifunctional tools.

Feathers may have started as simple filaments in ancient dinosaurs, but a team of Swiss researchers is digging deep into the ...

Kobayashi and his colleagues christened the new therizinosaur, Duonychus tsogtbaatari. The genus name means “double claw”, ...

Modern birds, along with certain snakes and fishes, have skulls whose jaws and palates are not firmly fixed in place.

Dinosaurs are the extinct relatives of birds that roamed the lands and seas of ancient Earth. They first appeared around 240 ...

It’s fun to imagine secret dinosaur survivors living today, hidden in a remote corner of Earth. But the truth of who made it ...

Modern birds are the living relatives of dinosaurs. Take a look at the features of flightless birds like chickens and ...

Scientists suggest that bigger brains in bird ancestors led to more flexible skulls, playing a key role in their evolution.

Studies of the horns, spikes, plates and clubs of dinosaurs could help settle a long-standing debate over their function ...

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Paleontologists continue to discuss the possibility of their even earlier presence in the common ancestor of dinosaurs and pterosaurs ... into feathers on the bird’s feet.