Researchers calculated the flight ability of more than 80 ancient cicada species to analyze their evolution over time.

Bird Evolution: Few subjects in evolutionary theory have posed such intriguing puzzles for so long as the origin of birds. Evidence of avian beginnings has been elusive in the fossil record ...

In this new study, published today in Nature, the B10K achieved this second milestone by releasing genomic resources for 363 bird species, or 92% of all all bird families, including 267 new genomes, ...

We've had bird evolution all wrong A frozen chunk of genome rewrites our understanding of the bird family tree Date: April 3, 2024 Source: University of Florida ...

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

A new genetic map of nearly all living birds has shaken the avian evolutionary tree, ... A flock of genomes tells the tale of bird evolution. By Geoffrey Mohan. Dec. 11, 2014 3:43 PM PT .

“Birds are petite and they are relatively morphologically constant. They don’t experience crazy evolution like lizards. Most all birds have their wings and a pair of legs,” says Navalón.

Birds have developed a unique evolutionary solution to ensure the survival of males—a powerful microRNA. This tiny gene ...

Among the many recurring themes on this blog, the evolution of birds from feathered maniraptoran dinosaurs is probably the most prevalent. Hardly a month goes by without a new study relevant to ...

Bird skull evolution slowed after the extinction of the dinosaurs. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2020 / 08 / 200818142141.htm. PLOS.

Sing a song of bird phylogeny. ... The scientists took a phylogenetic tree of songbirdsand looked at each species, noting which had been observed to have female song and which hadn’t.