A fascinating discovery in the world of paleontology has shattered the Hollywood-inspired image of dinosaurs popularized by films like Jurassic Park. A newly identified dinosaur species, Pulaosaurus ...

Everyone knows what a bird is – and pretty much everyone knows what a dinosaur is. But not everyone is aware that birds evolved from dinosaurs approximately 160 million years ago.

However, the fossil really stands out because, in a rare stroke of luck for paleontologists, its bony vocal organs were ...

Birds evolved a better sense of smell than their dinosaur ancestors, Canadian and U.S. researchers have found. That is contrary to what paleontologists had long believed.

A tiny, overlooked wrist bone called the pisiform may have played a pivotal role in bird flight and it turns out it evolved ...

Even though dinosaurs were wiped out when a massive asteroid collided with Earth about 66 million years ago, their only living representatives, birds, managed to squeak through the ensuing cataclysm.

Over the past five years Tanaka and Zelenitsky have examined the eggs and nests of more than 120 living species of birds and crocodiles, and about 30 species of dinosaur eggs. From their studies ...

Several features related to their eggs, including brooding behaviours, are now known to have been passed down from dinosaurs, like oviraptorosaurs, to birds. The latest discovery, Baby Yingliang, ...

American and Chinese paleontologists have found that a bird-like dinosaur probably used venom to hunt its prey, the first time venom has been found in the ancestors of birds.

Tracks of dinosaur footprints can hint at how fast the extinct animals moved. Here’s how guinea fowl can help fact-check those assumptions.

Dinosaurs, birds and a new evolutionary tree A team of researchers has updated the evolutionary tree and it shows some dinosaurs could fly. Hans Larsson of McGill University explains ...