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

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 ...

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

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

The paper documents the earliest known evidence of birds nesting in polar regions. Each spring, the Arctic comes alive with the sounds of chirping and the arrival of fluffy hatchlings, as millions of ...

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

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 ...

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

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.