Cranial kinesis allows modern birds to eat a wider variety of foods and use their beaks as multifunctional tools.

Scientists have successfully genetically modified chickens to make their feathers resemble those of dinosaurs. This study is ...

Feathers are among the most complex cutaneous appendages in the animal kingdom. While their evolutionary origin has been ...

Modern birds, along with certain snakes and fishes, have skulls whose jaws and palates are not firmly fixed in place.

Feathers may have started as simple filaments in ancient dinosaurs, but a team of Swiss researchers is digging deep into the ...

It’s fun to imagine secret dinosaur survivors living today, hidden in a remote corner of Earth. But the truth of who made it ...

Modern birds are the living relatives of dinosaurs. Take a look at the features of flightless birds like chickens and ...

Understanding these genetic interactions is crucial for unraveling how morphological novelties like proto-feathers emerged ...

Scientists suggest that bigger brains in bird ancestors led to more flexible skulls, playing a key role in their evolution.

Dinosaurs are the extinct relatives of birds that roamed the lands and seas of ancient Earth. They first appeared around 240 ...

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