Whether it's digging up weathered bones from a paleontological site or reexamining forgotten trays in museum and university ...

CT scans also indicate Archaeopteryx had nerve endings in the end of its beak—part of what’s known as a bill-tip organ. Again ...

Recent discoveries about an alvarezsaur called Manipulonyx have drawn renewed attention to this group of bird-like, clawed creatures and the mysteries around their anatomy and behavior ...

A new bird-like dinosaur species has been discovered with unusually large and “robust” clawed hands, shedding more light on early adaptations that led to the evolution of birds. The dinosaur, named ...

Learn how artificial intelligence is helping reinterpret dinosaur footprints, including bird-like tracks that blur the line ...

When the big asteroid hit Mexico 66 million years ago, it set off wildfires, tsunamis and massive clouds of dust that darkened the skies, killed much of Earth’s plant life and triggered a chain of ...

If you’ve seen the viral video of the large shoebill bird landing on a boat in Africa’s Mabamba Swamp, you might be asking yourself if such a prehistoric-looking, seemingly giant bird could be real.

The end of the dinosaurs was not just a spectacular finish, it was a brutal reset of life on Earth. In the geological instant ...

It's a bit like Cinderella trying on her glass slipper... except the shoe is squishy mud, the foot weighs tons, and the owner ...

Oceania is home to a curious and formidable creature, the cassowary. The dinosaur-like giant has earned the title of the world’s deadliest bird.