Dinosaurs Once Had Furs and Feather Covering Their Body, Study Finds Evidence of Bird-Like Features We have learned about ...

Cranial kinesis allows modern birds to eat a wider variety of foods and use their beaks as multifunctional tools.

Modern birds, along with certain snakes and fishes, have skulls whose jaws and palates are not firmly fixed in place.

Feathers, essential for thermoregulation, flight, and communication in birds, originate from simple appendages known as proto ...

The Archaeopteryx, a bird-like dinosaur that scientists describe as more reptilian-like than modern birds, were about the size of a crow. More: What lies at the center of the Earth? The answer ...

A team of paleontologists from the Natural History Museum in the U.K., the University of Birmingham, also in the U.K., and ...

their dinosaur ancestors were soaring through the air. Scientists are piecing together how these iconic reptiles took to the skies. Fossils reveal that bird-like dinosaurs were flying around more than ...

Scientists suggest that bigger brains in bird ancestors led to more flexible skulls, playing a key role in their evolution.

Modern birds are the living relatives of dinosaurs. Take a look at the features of flightless birds like chickens and ...

Palaeognaths include emus and ostriches, and can reach 9 feet tall and weigh upwards of 300 pounds. They are more known for their brawn than their brains and often rely on their running speed and ...

Researchers emphasize that this fossil confirms that cerapodan dinosaurs underwent diversification well before the Cretaceous ...

However, some dinosaur species were actually covered in feathers, just like birds today. We know this because some fossils ...