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

The bird was roughly the size of a starling and ... moment I first saw it to the moment I finished assembling all the skull bones and the brain, which lets us fully appreciate the anatomy of ...

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

A newly studied Vegavis iaai skull from Antarctica confirms that modern bird lineages, like ducks and geese, were evolving alongside non-avian dinosaurs. This study supports Vegavis' placement in the ...

"Few birds are as likely to start as many arguments among paleontologists as 'vegavis,'" said professor Christopher Torres.

It is now widely accepted that birds are descended ... digitally removed the bones from their rocky tomb and reconstructed the original shape and function of the skull. The result demonstrates ...

says two features of the almost complete skull only ever occur in modern birds. First, the upper beak is primarily comprised of a bone called the premaxilla, while a second bone, the maxilla ...

A new study in Nature describing a fossil of a nearly complete and intact bird skull from Antarctica is shedding light on the early evolution of today’s birds and avian diversity at the end of ...

Unlike with rams and rhinos, the screamer’s horn doesn’t seem to be a weapon, because it is only loosely attached to the skull ... Each bird sports a pair of sharpened bone spurs on its ...