Over time, some of those dinosaurs sprouted feathers and took to the skies—and while their reptilian cousins died off, those ...

Despite the increasingly clear picture of the evolution of birds from theropod dinosaurs that has emerged, a few scientists are still unconvinced. No alternative hypothesis has been offered to ...

How do you look for alien life when you don't know what alien ... whether it's a flying bird or a microbe moving in a drop of water. But scientists don't agree on a definition, and some think ...

(Credit Júlia D'Oliveira) A ‘one of a kind’ fossil discovery could transform our understanding of how the unique brains and intelligence of modern birds evolved, one of the most enduring mysteries of ...

Situations relating to invasive alien vegetation and migratory birds are highly important examples of issues that warrant concern. Regarding these situations, environmental activists need to work ...

More information: Clara Marino et al, The anthropocene biogeography of alien birds on islands: Drivers of their functional ...

An 80-million-year-old fossil bird has been discovered with a skull so exquisitely preserved that scientists have been able to study the detailed structure of its brain. The fossil, which bears a ...

Birds evolved from small feathered dinosaurs during the Jurassic Period. The Navaornis discovery filled in a gap of 70 million years in the understanding of the evolution of avian neuroanatomy ...