Wings may be the obvious choice when studying the connection between dinosaurs and birds, but a pair of Yale ... and co-author of the study. "But evolution acts on all parts of the body, great ...

To find such an intact fossil bird that dates back to the Mesozoic is almost unheard of, making the find one of the most ...

“But evolution acts on all parts of the body, great and small, so structures that have been ignored are often gold mines for new insights and untold tales.” “We found that the very features that ...

Interestingly, this fossil fills a 70-million-year-long gap in our knowledge between the early bird-like dinosaurs (Archaeopteryx ... to shed light on bird evolution. The findings were published ...

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 ...

Navaornis lived approximately 80 million years ago in what is now Brazil, before the mass extinction event that killed all non-avian dinosaurs. The researchers say their discovery, reported in the ...