The present scientific consensus is that birds are a group of maniraptoran theropod dinosaurs that originated during the Mesozoic era. A close relationship between birds and dinosaurs was first …

Dec 21, 2021 · Roger Benson’s latest paper features a feathered, chicken-sized, bird-like dinosaur revealed to have the hearing ability to rival a barn owl – a specialised nocturnal …

Jun 12, 2015 · In new research, published last month in Evolution, the researchers show that just a few small genetic tweaks can morph a bird face into one that resembles a dinosaur. In …

Birds that fill the world’s skies today are living dinosaurs, reminders of a distant and strange past. Decades of major new discoveries and studies have convinced researchers that there’s a …

Jan 20, 2020 · Just as humans are mammals, birds are dinosaurs — the sole surviving lineage in the entire dinosaur family tree.

The birds are simply a twig on the dinosaurs’ branch of the tree of life. As birds evolved from these theropod dinosaurs, many of their features were modified. However, it’s important to …

Sep 15, 2020 · Paleontologists have noticed that some dinosaur groups, including birds, evolved beaks and lost teeth as they became more herbivorous.

Bird-like dinosaurs Many of the characteristics of early and modern birds appeared first in theropod dinosaurs. Feathers, wishbones, modified "flapping" forelimbs and hollow bones are …

Jan 1, 2017 · A remarkable fossil record of the dinosaurs that led to birds reveals how evolution produces entirely new kinds of organisms

Jan 16, 2025 · How did those birds survive – and why? O'Connor calls this question the "million-dollar question of dinosaur paleobiology," because scientists don't exactly know. But one key …