With its glaciers and sub-zero temperatures, Antarctica hardly seems like a place of refuge. However, the now icy continent ...

Sixty-six million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period, an asteroid impact near the Yucat n Peninsula of Mexico triggered the extinction of all known non-bird dinosaurs. But for the early ...

A forgotten fossil in a German museum turned out to be a rare Diatryma skull. Scientists corrected a decades-old ...

A recently analyzed near-complete fossil skull found in Antarctica has revealed Vegavis iaai to be the oldest known modern bird, according to a study published in Nature.

This massive footprint is believed to belong to a giant Saurolophus, a duck-billed dinosaur estimated to exceed 15 meters in length. This would make it larger than even famous predators like ...

In a similar case, Charles Darwin famously noted how the finches of different Galápagos islands had different beak shapes that ... we found changes in anatomy over a short period of time.

"While 'bird brain' is often used as an insult, the brains of birds are so large that they are practically a braincase with a beak ... and Comparative Anatomy, Paris. Credit: Aubrey Keirnan ...

Researchers have developed a method to study bird brains by creating digital endocasts from empty cranial spaces in bird ...

A masked lapwing (Vanellus miles) and its reflection in water. Courtesy Michael Jury of Mykelphotography.It's difficult to ...

From the anatomy of animals to the behavior of plants ... The trains were modeled on the long, narrow beak of the kingfisher, a bird that hunts fish by diving into bodies of water with little ...

In the icy wilderness of Antarctica, where glaciers now dominate the landscape, scientists have unearthed a fossil that ...