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

Feathers, essential for thermoregulation, flight, and communication in birds, originate from simple appendages known as proto-feathers, which were present in certain dinosaurs.By studying embryonic ...

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

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

Learn why scientists say it’s a rare case of animals exploiting their glow for visual signaling.

Environmentalists are celebrating a legal settlement that will close historic family dairies they say are degrading Point ...

The study relied on electrodes placed in the brains of parrots and songbirds and tracked the behavior of neurons in a region ...

Dr Merijn van de Laar, a Dutch scientist who has studied and treated sleep problems all his career, tells Anna Bonet the ...

Feathers are important for birds today, enabling flight, warmth, and communication. Now, researchers from the University of Geneva have traced the origin of feathers. Scientists b ...

Scientists uncovered a key genetic pathway in the origin of feathers, but they found that evolution is stubborn in turning ...

Researchers sequenced the DNA of Cuban blue-headed quail dove, expecting clear origins. Instead, they found it has no close ...

Yet birds differ from their reptile ancestors in many important ways. A turning point in their evolution was the development of larger brains, which in turn led to changes in the size and shape of ...