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

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.

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

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).

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.

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

A 69-million-year-old fossilized skull unearthed in Antarctica could rewrite the history of modern birds. The nearly complete skull belongs to Vegavis iaai, a prehistoric waterfowl species that ...

“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 ...

Modern birds evolved from dinosaurs, but it’s not clear how well birds’ ancient dino ancestors could fly (SN: 10/28/16). Now, a look at the fossilized feet of one nonavian dinosaur suggests ...