Scientists uncovered a 149-million-year-old bird fossil in southeastern China with unexpectedly modern traits they believe could rewrite the evolutionary history of birds. The recently discovered ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Paleontologists have found the first complete skull of a controversial prehistoric bird. Known as Vegavis iaai, the bird thrived ...

Exactly how did birds evolve from dinosaurs? It’s a mystery that has been with us for more than 150 years, and ...

The unlucky fossil bird, preserved with over 800 tiny rocks in its throat (visible as the gray mass next to the left of its neck bones). A fossil only tells part of the story. When an animal’s body is ...

In front of us was a dinosaur skeleton the size of a large dog. It was obviously a dinosaur, as it had the reinforced pelvis, ...

Ancient fossils have revealed some new insights about the Arctic. Researchers have analyzed a group of 50 remains from northern Alaska, which has pushed the presence of birds in the area 25 million ...

Scientists with the Field Museum of Chicago have discovered that a pigeon-sized Archaeopteryx fossil in its collection displays an array of features previously unknown when it comes to the earliest ...

Around 120 million years ago, a bird swallowed over 800 tiny stones and choked to death as a result. Paleontologists aren’t sure why. Like many recent fossil “discoveries,” researchers with the Field ...

(Reuters) -A new analysis of a pigeon-sized Archaeopteryx fossil in the collection of the Field Museum in Chicago is revealing an array of previously unknown features of the earliest-known bird, ...

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