Imagine peering into your backyard and spotting a creature whose ancestors once thundered across ancient landscapes alongside ...

Fossils of alvarezsaurid dinosaurs show bird-like air sacs in their bones. Scans revealed hollow spaces connected to their ...

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 ...

"Fossil feathers are usually preserved in ancient mudrocks laid down in lakes or lagoons. The fossil vulture is preserved in ash deposits, which is extremely unusual," study lead author Valentina ...

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

Millions of years before modern birds evolved, their dinosaur ancestors were soaring through the air. Scientists are piecing together how these iconic reptiles took to the skies. Fossils reveal that ...

Mar. 20, 2025 — Feathers, essential for thermoregulation, flight, and communication in birds, originate from simple appendages known as proto-feathers, which were present in certain dinosaurs.By ...

The earliest uncontroversial modern bird fossil discovered so far is Asteriornis maastrichtensis – more popularly called the wonderchicken. Fossils of the wonderchicken date to 66.7 million years ago, ...

compounds that give modern bird eggs color and speckling. Bird eggs, such as these from tinamous, get their colors from pigments including protoporphyrin and biliverdin. Some fossil dinosaur eggs ...

The team began by taking CT scans of a variety of fossils and skeletons from modern-day birds and related reptiles like alligators. Using the data from these images, they then built 3D models to ...