Flying is really hard work. Compared to walking, swimming, or running, flying is the form of movement that takes the most ...

Sometimes you stand at the window on a freezing morning, coffee in hand, staring at a little sparrow on the fence and ...

One of Earth’s first birds had modern bird-like mouth features that evolved to handle food efficiently and meet the energy ...

Imagine walking into a courtroom and seeing a cage near the witness stand. Inside sits a bright, alert parrot whose owner was ...

Recent discoveries about an alvarezsaur called Manipulonyx have drawn renewed attention to this group of bird-like, clawed creatures and the mysteries around their anatomy and behavior ...

By Will Dunham Feb 10 (Reuters) - Scientists have unearthed in Canada's province of Nova Scotia the skull of a creature ...

Scientists have uncovered something extraordinary inside the skull of an Archaeopteryx fossil.

We know the main reason that the age of the dinosaurs came to an end: an asteroid impact on the Yucatán Peninsula some 66 million years ago. But how the dinosaurs’ reign began is far less clear—and ...

Chameleons can rocket their tongues at prey in a blur, frogs can slam sticky tongues onto insects with forces several times ...

Learn how tiny fossils from Spain led to the discovery of Foskeia and a new chapter in dinosaur evolution.