Few subjects in evolutionary theory have posed such intriguing puzzles for so long as the origin of birds. Evidence of avian beginnings has been elusive in the fossil record because birds' light ...

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Plastic waste has let common coots reuse nests year after year. Scientists have now used the trash layers to date how old nests are.

It’s a tough nut to crack, given how rare birds are in the fossil record. But some exceptional discoveries over the past dozen years, coupled with advances in genetic analysis, are starting to ...

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 ...

Dinosaurs may not have been declining before the asteroid impact after all – new research shows that the apparent drop in ...

A newly-discovered juvenile bird specimen found in Spain is thought to have died just days after being born, and the fossil is an incredibly rare opportunity for scientists to study the ...

The oldest bird-like fossils are more than 150 million years old. These ancient bird-like creatures looked quite a lot like small, feathered dinosaurs and they had much in common. Their mouths still ...

The fossil was a primitive bird the size of a crow that may have been asphyxiated by volcanic fumes as it wheeled above the lakes all those millions of years ago. They named the new species ...