and the Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum in Frankfurt report on the bird's fully preserved skull in the journal Palaeontologia Electronica. The fossil was unearthed in the ...

Animation of a bird skull, showing muscle forces. Credit: Alec Wilken, Casey Holiday The team began by taking CT scans of a variety of fossils and skeletons from modern-day birds and related ...

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

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

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 ...

Remarkable new fossils from Swartkrans Cave reveal that a prehistoric relative of humans was also extremely small and ...

One of the only fossil Pokémon to not evolve, the abominations against Arceus itself don’t count, is Aerodactyl. The iconic ...

However, early studies of this fossil species suggested these birds were filter feeders ... studies have suggested that the quadrate bone (a skull bone critical for jaw movement) was unlike ...

New research shows how physical changes in the skull affected the mechanics of the way birds move and use their beaks to eat and explore their habitats -- adaptations that helped them evolve into the ...