Fossils of a ground-dwelling, carnivorous bird with wing anatomy similar to that of a pheasant may force a rewrite of the ...

By Will Dunham Oct 14 (Reuters) - Scientists have discovered the fossil of a crow-sized bird that lived in China roughly 150 ...

For early birds, evolution wasn't always about becoming better flyers. This conclusion is supported by the recent discovery ...

Steve Brusatte, the American palaeontologist and consultant on several Jurassic Park films, will return to the Jaipur ...

A Late Jurassic fossil from southeastern China reveals a flightless early bird with markedly short forelimbs, showing that ...

Yuezhuornis, a 150-million-year-old Jurassic bird from China, had serrated teeth unlike any other bird and probably hunted on ...

A newly unearthed Jurassic fossil from east China is prompting scientists to rethink one of the most basic assumptions about bird evolution: that early birds always evolved toward better flight ...

Scientists have uncovered an unexpected trade-off in the wings of the European nightjar, a bird that migrates thousands of ...

AI study links rare bursts of songbird evolution to ancient climate shifts across 45 million years.

A frozen chunk of genome rewrites our understanding of the bird family tree. An enormous meteor spelled doom for most dinosaurs 65 million years ago. But not all. In the aftermath of the extinction ...

New research on bird behavior suggests that evolution may repeat itself. Scientists have long wondered whether evolution would follow the same path if history had a chance for a “do-over.” The new ...

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, ...