Fossils unearthed during the construction of a water pipeline in Mongolia’s Gobi Desert have uncovered a bizarre dinosaur ...

An analysis of nearly 120 dinosaur species and more than 1,500 skeletal features revealed that the theropod lineages that are thought to have been direct ancestors of birds evolved skeletal ...

Despite the increasingly clear picture of the evolution of birds from theropod dinosaurs that has emerged, a few scientists are still unconvinced. No alternative hypothesis has been offered to ...

The first theropod dinosaur has been identified in Kyrgyzstan. It is named Alpkarakush kyrgyzicus, after a giant mythological bird from the Kyrgyz Epic of Manas that helps out heroes during ...

Decades of major new discoveries and studies have convinced researchers that there’s a direct link between modern bird species and theropod dinosaurs. Once dinosaurs were thought of as scaled-up ...

While the non-avian dinosaurs disappeared after the catastrophic asteroid impact 66 million years ago, the lineage of theropod dinosaurs gave rise to modern birds. This evolutionary triumph ...