The skeleton is shown in green, nerves in blue, muscles in red. The pelvis of this quail embryo has just transformed into a relatively “modern” bird configuration.

A previously unknown, bird-like dinosaur species that is thought to have lived around 70 million years ago has been discovered. Researchers found the fossilized remains of the "bizarre" new ...

Fossilized fragments of a skeleton, hidden within a rock the size of a grapefruit, have helped upend one of the longest-standing assumptions about the origins of modern birds.

The anatomy of a Chinese fossil offers a hint that birdsong may be as old as the dinosaurs themselves. Since the 1930s, ...

“This posture has never been recognized in a dinosaur embryo, but it is similar to a close-to-hatching modern bird embryo.” An artist’s reconstruction of the baby oviraptorid within its egg ...

In other words, it slept like a modern bird, its head curled around and tucked into the body. Image of the articulated alvarezsaurid skeleton Scale bar = 10 centimeters (four inches).

With each new discovery in paleontology, we are gradually moving away from the Hollywood-inspired image of dinosaurs ...

Pulaosuarus’ throat seems somewhere between the two. Its vocal structures appear to be similar to that of another dinosaur, ...

There were probably multiple factors that helped the ancestors of modern birds survive, noted Torres. Still, the new findings suggest an enlarged forebrain could be part of what gave them their edge.