Everyone knows what a bird is, and most people are familiar with dinosaurs. However, not many realize that birds evolved from ...

Modern birds, the distant relatives of those ancient giants, carry within their DNA the story of that cataclysmic event.

An illustration shows what Duonychus tsogtbaatari might have looked like. Unlike its therizinosaur brethren, the new species had only two claws instead of three. When Hokkaido University ...

Live reconstruction of a Bonapartenykus specimen by Abel G. Montes. (Image Credit: Meso et al. 2025, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 ...

What’s more, this rule even describes beak shape in the long-gone ancestors of birds – the dinosaurs. We are excited to share our findings, now published in the journal iScience. By studying ...

The tradition of coloring eggs to celebrate Easter can be traced to the 13th-century Britain, and perhaps even earlier, to early Christian Europe and Mesopotamia. But these were not the first colored ...

Scientists have identified fossil dinosaur footprints from a new species in B.C. and Alberta. They're believed to be the ...