A tiny, overlooked wrist bone called the pisiform may have played a pivotal role in bird flight and it turns out it evolved ...

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

A 13-million-year-old leg bone from an enormous flightless bird carries crocodilian tooth marks, showing South America was ...

A pivotal wrist bone in birds appears earlier in theropods. This could shift views on how flight evolved. An analysis of two ...

Birds are perhaps the most colorful group of animals, bringing a splash of color to the natural world around us every day.

One day in the Middle Miocene, some 11 million to 16 million years ago, a roughly 4.8-metre-long caiman ate a terror bird 1.

The first pneumonic plague death in Arizona's Coconino County in almost two decades highlights the rare but deadly respiratory disease transmitted mainly by infected fleas.

Business Dallas’ Colossal Biosciences pairs with Lord of the Rings director to resurrect giant bird Peter Jackson has a large collection of bones from the extinct New Zealand bird.

Archaeologists in central Israel are excavating one of the world's oldest-known burial sites, dating back 100,000 years. The ...

An Arizona resident has died from pneumonic plague, a rare but highly dangerous lung infection, Coconino County health officials confirmed on Friday. This incident marks the first death from the ...

The discovery, in a bizarre animal not closely related to birds, could change how scientists think about the origin of feathers.

An international research team from the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin and from Buenos Aires and Washington D.C. has identified ...