An analysis of a 30,000-year-old fossil vulture from Central Italy has revealed for the first time that volcanic rock can preserve microscopic details in feathers -- the first ever record of such a ...

Kobayashi and his colleagues christened the new therizinosaur, Duonychus tsogtbaatari. The genus name means “double claw”, ...

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

Scientists now believe that feathers didn’t just appear suddenly in birds. Instead, they evolved step by step from much ...

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

Jenna Ortega made an appearance in New York City this week for the premiere of her latest film, Death of a Unicorn. Ortega ...

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

A study of the fossilised fur of six mammals from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods has found they were all greyish-brown ...

Nestlings do not have feathers yet and cannot survive outside of their nest for long. Return nestlings to the nest as quickly ...

When vertebrates moved onto land, long ago, some of them eventually became airborne, way after the insects did. There are ...

It had feathered wings like living birds, but also had traits found in reptiles, such as teeth, claws and a long bony tail. Charles Darwin, who had published On the Origin of Species two years ...