The two species share a remarkable biological past. Our palaeontologist Professor Paul Barrett explains how this understanding of dinosaur evolution is transforming the way scientists think. Birds ...

This image changed when we started to realize that dinosaurs were far more similar to birds than to modern-day lizards. Today, researchers agree that birds are technically dinosaurs — the only ...

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 ...

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

If dinosaurs died, how come there are birds? Caiden S., age 9, Wylie, Texas Everyone knows what a bird is – and pretty much ...

A new exhibition that explores how birds have evolved from dinosaurs aims to "unlock the surprising secrets of avian survival". Birds: Brilliant and Bizarre has opened at London's Natural History ...

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 ...

A fossilized skull of a bird that lived during the age of the dinosaurs helps to fill a long gap in the evolutionary history of birds. Our discovery provides long-sought insights into the detailed ...

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 ...

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

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 ...