When most people imagine a bird, they picture an animal with feathers, wings, and a beak perched on a tree branch. However, ...

A newly described dinosaur called Jian, a close relative of Velociraptor, likely glided on four feathered wings and preyed on ...

Muhumuza helped make shoebills famous last November, when he shared what became viral footage of a massive shoebill that had ...

For years, scientists guessed that a larger predatory animal must have hunted these ancient birds, but they never found ...

A newly discovered feathered dinosaur fossil in China, named Jianchangmaensis, reveals a previously unknown species of ...

A fossil found in what’s now northwestern China belonged to a microraptor, a gliding dinosaur that hunted ancient birds.

Even though the dinosaurs have been extinct for millions of years, modern researchers argue that there is still proof that ...

When you picture a dinosaur, what does it look like? For Jingmai O'Connor, paleobiologist and associate curator of reptiles at the Field Museum of... Birds are dinosaurs. Here's how scientists know ...

The bones of a 160-million-year-old dinosaur are helping scientists solve one of evolution’s biggest mysteries: how birds gained flight. Hidden within the wrist of a small, feathered dinosaur lies a ...

In this Brooklyn Bird Watch, we’ll share some fascinating facts and theories about the life of birds millions of years ago, and stay tuned for follow-up pieces about the current realities of our ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. Picture a bird egg: Perhaps it's the cocoa brown of a free-range chicken. Or a robin's creamy blue-green ...

A fossil bed in northwestern China is littered with the remains of hundreds of prehistoric birds—including some whose broken bones were crushed into pellets, similar to those coughed up by modern owls ...