The dream of flying has always fascinated humanity. In evolutionary history, the ability to fly has emerged independently ...

Birds have developed a unique evolutionary solution to ensure the survival of males—a powerful microRNA. This tiny gene ...

Researchers calculated the flight ability of more than 80 ancient cicada species to analyze their evolution over time.

Despite how we usually depict them, the hilarious truth is that many dinosaurs who once roamed our Earth, did so with a ...

The fossil skeleton of a newly discovered dinosaur species was found in a pose suggesting it slept like modern birds. This sleeping behavior may have been more common than expected among non-avian ...

New fossil scans reveal that a tiny wrist bone in dinosaurs may have set the stage for the evolution of bird flight.

Environment Animals Wildlife Birds Birds are so specialized to their homes, it shows in their bones 3D images of avian skeletons help scientists understand the role of ecology in evolution.

Bird Evolution: 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 ...

What we do know is that bird evolution was complicated. Many characteristics of birds seem to have evolved multiple times in dinosaurs, across numerous families. One of the main traits of birds today, ...

The fossil is giving archaeologists important insights into the evolution of birds in the terrestrial ecosystem at the time.

It’s also likely that the ancestor of all modern birds had iridescent feathers. The findings are detailed in a study published July 26 in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution.

A fossil skull from a toothy early relative of today's birds shows a weirdly modern skull configuration, raising new questions about the early evolution of birds.