A major collection of more than 50 bird fossils found in northern Alaska suggest some ancient ancestors of modern birds ...

Tiny fossil fragments discovered in northern Alaska have revealed that ancient birds were nesting in the Arctic at least 73 ...

Spring in the Arctic brings forth a plethora of peeps and downy hatchlings as millions of birds gather to raise their young.

At first glance, feathers may seem like simple parts of a bird’s body. But if you look closer—under a microscope or through a ...

Tiny bone fragments from Alaska suggest birds started breeding and nesting in the Arctic 30 million years earlier than ...

Scientists were finally given access to a remarkable Archaeopteryx fossil that’s allowed them to better understand exactly ...

A new international study has confirmed that a mysterious feature found in dinosaur eggshells—called secondary eggshell units ...

Newly discovered feathers were crucial to how Archaeopteryx was able to fly. Archaeopteryx is the fossil that helped confirm ...

Most modern birds solved this issue by evolving shorter appendages to accompany their tertial feathers. But even though ...

After 128 years of exploration and fossil excavation, researchers have finally unearthed the skull of Genyornis newtoni.

Scientists uncovered a 149-million-year-old bird fossil in southeastern China with unexpectedly modern traits they believe could rewrite the evolutionary history of birds. The recently ...