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.

“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 ...

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

The blue-headed quail dove is a uniquely ancient species with no close relatives and is now on the brink of extinction. At ...

Green woodpeckers have exceptionally long sticky tongues for scooping up ants- the tongue is so long that it is coiled behind the skull in order to fit into the ... the move in large numbers ...

For instance, a very large bird may require to have the neck cut off when the skull is reached, and the skinning of the head to be performed by an incision from the outside down the back of the skull.

Throughout the night, great potoos emit a loud, moaning growl that has earned the bird a mythical status, with some ...