An analysis of North America’s fossil record for the 18 million years before dinosaurs disappeared suggests the prehistoric ...

New discoveries shed light on an ancient human species and its evolutionary links to modern humans. Stephen Chester, ...

The Chicxulub asteroid crater supported marine life for 700,000 years, showing that some mass extinction events may help life ...

The dinosaurs were not in decline before the asteroid hit, a new study finds. Instead, poor fossilization conditions and ...

Whether you love watching barn swallows up close or dread the mess they leave behind, a Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service expert encourages you to take preventative action before the birds ...

Whether you love watching barn swallows up close or dread the mess they leave behind, a Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service expert encourages you to take preventative action before the birds begin ...

Suppose that you want to get rid of a whole lot of mosquitoes with a quadcopter drone by chopping them up in the rotor blades. If you had really good eyesight and pretty amazing piloting skills ...

Recent research suggests that feathers likely evolved from simpler structures known as proto-feathers, which emerged around 200 million years ago in certain dinosaurs. This pivotal discovery sheds ...

Feathers may have started as simple filaments in ancient dinosaurs, but a team of Swiss researchers is ... they triggered a dramatic transformation: scales on the birds’ feet were permanently ...

Whether they hop around the prairie, dabble in wetlands, flit through forests, or forage along the shore, birds are suffering rapid population declines across the United States. That’s the finding ...

Modern birds are closely related to dinosaurs, as seen by comparing flightless species like chickens and ostriches, which walk on two hind legs, or predatory hawks and eagles with their keen senses ...

Ever since Crichton’s 1990 Jurassic Park, and the Spielberg blockbuster adaptation that followed in 1993, every dinosaur lover in existence has dreamed of how they could build the park right.