We know that modern birds like chickens and turkeys are actually closely related to dinosaurs. But for some time, scientists ...

If you’ve noticed something different about your morning bird symphony lately, you’re not imagining things. The dawn chorus, ...

Ancient fossils from Alaska reveal birds nested in the Arctic 73 million years ago, challenging previous assumptions about ...

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 ...

A remarkable 70-million-year-old dinosaur embryo, discovered perfectly preserved inside its fossilized egg in Missouri, ...

A near complete skull fossil found in Antarctica has revealed the oldest known modern bird — a mallard duck-size creature related to the waterfowl that live by lakes and oceans today ...

They found that iridescent, colorful feathers originated 415 times across the bird tree of life, and in most cases, arose outside of the tropics– and that the ancestor of all modern birds likely ...

The Chicago Archaeopteryx features more soft tissue and delicate skeletal details than any known fossil of its kind, and ...

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

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