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

A dinosaur fossil discovered in Mongolia boasts the largest ever complete claw, but the herbivorous species only used it to ...

Birds are actually dinosaurs. They evolved from theropods, a group of mostly meat-eaters that included Velociraptor and T.

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

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

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

Discover the first dinosaur tracks found in South Africa’s Western Cape, revealing 140-million-year-old footprints from ...

“Most theropods, including other therizinosaurs ... “Most of the time, when we find dinosaur claws, we’re only looking at the bony core. But in life, the actual claw would have been covered ...

We know this because some fossils from creatures such as Archaeopteryx and Sinosauropteryx — both theropod dinosaurs — have preserved feather imprints. And some Velociraptor fossils have tiny ...

A cascade of changes from dinosaurs to birds When the team analyzed data from the 3D models, they saw that as brain and skull sizes increased in non-avian theropod dinosaurs, muscles shifted into ...