a herbivorous bird with a large beak. The completely preserved skull was initially misidentified as belonging to a crocodile. Michael Stache, a geological preparator at MLU’s Central Repository ...

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

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

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

Unlike with rams and rhinos, the screamer’s horn doesn’t seem to be a weapon, because it is only loosely attached to the skull and known ... the weight of these large birds, which is thought ...

Now, a new, complete 120-million-year-old fossil bird from China further complicates this issue by exhibiting a dinosaur-like skull articulated with a bird-like body. In addition, the fossil ...

At first glance the bird’s skull appears similar to many species flying around ... days have relatively unspecialized snouts formed by a small premaxilla and a large maxilla, such as the Archaeopteryx ...

"A large part of it hinges upon when birds evolved a relatively large brain. Just like in humans, bigger brains drive a lot of changes in the skull." As paleontologists discover more details about ...