Now Brusatte and other paleontologists are trying to determine exactly how feathered dinosaurs achieved powered flight and became the birds that fly overhead today – an evolutionary mystery that ...

Science has uncovered some incredible connections between the chickens you'd find on a farm and one of the most famous ...

Sometimes we look at animals on this planet and can feel their ancestry in their eyes. From reptiles to birds, they carry the ...

Stephanie Abramowicz Prior to this find, the knowledge of the evolutionary transition between the brain of the 150-million-year-old Archaeopteryx—the earliest bird-like dinosaur—and modern ...

A groundbreaking discovery is shedding light on how modern birds developed their unique brains and intelligence. Researchers ...

the earliest known bird-like dinosaur, and birds living today. Navaornis had a larger cerebrum than Archaeopteryx, suggesting it had more advanced cognitive capabilities than the earliest bird ...

While scientists have linked dinosaurs to birds through feathers and wings, new research from Yale University has identified a different area of focus. Although the wing may be an obvious choice ...

Navaornis had a larger cerebrum than Archaeopteryx, suggesting it had more advanced cognitive capabilities than the earliest bird-like dinosaurs. However, most areas of its brain, like the ...

The birds of today descended from the dinosaurs of yore. Researchers have known relatively little, however, about how the bird's brain took shape over tens of millions of years. "Birds are one of ...

These birds went extinct around 66 million years ago alongside all non-avian dinosaurs.

Dinosaurs stimulate our imagination, exhibit curators and visitors at the American Museum of Natural History told USA TODAY one rainy afternoon.

By the 1950s and early 1960s, non-bird dinosaurs were often cast in a negative light – they were said to be failures destined for extinction, inferior to the mammals that replaced them ...