A major collection of more than 50 bird fossils found in northern Alaska suggest some ancient ancestors of modern birds learned to either adapt to the harsh Arctic winter, or migrate south during the ...

In modern birds, such behavior helps them to conserve body heat; it likely served a similar purpose for maniraptoran dinosaurs that also curled up at bedtime, according to the study.

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 ...

Loon-like ancient bird might be modern duck's ancestor By Wu Chong (China Daily) Updated: 2006-06-16 05:55. If it dives like a duck, has webbed feet like a duck and flies like a duck, is it a duck?

In modern birds, such behavior helps them to conserve body heat; it likely served a similar purpose for maniraptoran dinosaurs that also curled up at bedtime, according to the study.

The time-calibrated tree of 124 avian species demonstrates the phylogenetic relationships of modern birds. CHINA DAILY The researchers extracted DNA-sequence data from 25,640 genetic loci ...

Scientists were finally given access to a remarkable Archaeopteryx fossil that’s allowed them to better understand exactly ...

Birds are the only group of dinosaurs that survived the asteroid-induced mass extinction 66 million years ago. But not all the birds alive at the time made it. Why the ancestors of modern birds ...

Now, a new fossil discovered in 2011 and analyzed in a recent study published inNature appears to provide the missing link. The well-preserved skull reveals key bird-like features, including a ...

A Chicago fossil of Archaeopteryx uncovers unknown features, supporting theories of bird evolution from dinosaurs and highlighting its unique flight adaptations.