A team of researchers recently set out to northern Alaska to collect avian fossils — and discovered the earliest known ...

The repeated evolution of huge birds is part of the dinosaurian legacy. Beaked birds were the only dinosaurs to have survived ...

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

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On the other hand, the cerebrum — the part of the brain associated with higher level cognition — was fairly big. It was much larger than that of the bird-like dinosaurs that came before and ...

A new study has found that birds were raising their young in the Arctic seventy-three million years ago, much earlier than ...

Maybe you imagine large armored dinosaurs like Ankylosaurus or Stegosaurus. But for Jingmai O'Connor, the dinosaurs she studies – look a lot more like birds. "If you looked at an artist's ...

Sept 6 (Reuters) - About 148 to 150 million years ago, a strange pheasant-sized and bird-like dinosaur with elongated ... There is still a big gap between the oldest known bird and the second ...

Large birds -- our closest relations to dinosaurs -- are capable of technical ... and while scientists have recently taken interest in other birds like gulls and birds of prey, all of these ...