Birds are the only dinosaur lineage that survived until today. About 66 million years ago at the Cretaceous–Paleogene (K–Pg) boundary, a mass extinction event destroyed all non-avian dinosaurs, ...

Mesozoic birds and their world -- The ancestry of birds and the origin of flight -- The bizarre Mononykus and its kin : an evolutionary experiment -- Archaeopteryx : the earliest bird -- Rahonavis and ...

New Haven, Conn. — The evolutionary path from dinosaurs to birds included the development of a tiny wrist bone that ultimately proved crucial for stabilizing wings in flight. A new study suggests that ...

(Reuters) - Scientists have unearthed in southeastern China the fossil of a quail-sized bird that lived about 150 million years ago during the Jurassic Period and possessed surprisingly modern traits, ...

Study finds that the mass extinction caused by an asteroid about 66 million years ago led to critical changes in bird genomes that ultimately sparked the incredibly diversity living birds. Shortly ...

Modern birds are the living relatives of dinosaurs. Take a look at the features of flightless birds like chickens and ostriches that walk upright on two hind legs, or predators like eagles and hawks ...

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 ...

Researchers in China have discovered a rare Jurassic bird fossil. The remains of the animal sheds light on the evolution of early birds.

Drawing of an ivory-billed woodpecker by Michael DiGiorgio. Community members are invited to learn about avian artworks at A Brief History of Bird Illustration and Painting, 7 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 25 in ...