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, a new study has ...

Researchers have discovered "wonderchicken," a 67-million-year-old fossilized bird they believe is the first "modern bird." Known as Asterioornis, the bird was discovered in a limestone quarry near ...

Tens of millions of years ago, a diverse array of bird species soared, swam, and thrived amid their scaly reptile cousins—and ...

A newly unearthed 69-million-year-old fossil is shaking up long-standing debates among paleontologists about when modern birds emerged. The discovery of a nearly complete skull from the extinct bird ...

Some feathered dinosaurs may have lost the ability to fly, revealing that the evolution of flight was far more complex than ...

Modern birds capable of flight all have a specialized wing structure called the propatagium without which they could not fly. The evolutionary origin of this structure has remained a mystery, but new ...

The color palette of the birds you see out your window depend on where you live. If you’re far from the Equator, most birds tend to have drab colors, but the closer you are to the tropics, you’ll ...

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