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

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

D modeling reveals that as bird brains grew larger, it led to changes in jaw muscles and joint mechanics—enabling the ...

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 million to 230 million years ago in the Triassic Period, and went extinct ...

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

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

If any bird looks like it belongs in Jurassic Park, it’s the toucan. Birds are living dinosaurs, after all, and this species still looks like its prehistoric ancestors. Toucan chicks are especially ...

Families visiting Birdworld are set to have a T-rexcellent time this Easter as dinosaurs descend on the popular attraction.

Farnham Pottery will be creating life-size replicas of dinosaur fossils. (Image: Birdworld) Farnham Pottery will also be returning to Birdworld, creating life-size replicas of dinosaur fossils. These ...

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