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 ...

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

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

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

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

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. introduces actors Debra Messing & Melanie Lynskey to ancestors who made bold decisions that forever reshaped their family trees. Moving from shtetls in Eastern Europe to a ...

Only small theropod dinosaurs survived the extinction; the ancestors of modern-day birds. Our small mammal ancestors probably ...

Recently, photos emerged of a kiwi caught in a DoC200 stoat trap. It prompted more articles about other native birds being caught in stoat traps, like weka and even our majestic, highly ...

Eating a bird is not a typical feature of a deer's diet, but in some unique cases, deer have been filmed consuming birds. According to the Encyclopedia Britannica, deer are specialized herbivores, ...

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Eric Sorensen, an Illinois Democrat. Chad Finch, vice president for the American Federation of Government Employees Local 2119, which represents workers at the Rock Island Arsenal, said the work ...

The winners will be enshrined May 8 at the hall's new space inside The Strong National Museum of Play in Rochester.The 2025 finalists are: Age of Empires, Angry Birds, Call of Duty 4: Modern ...