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Animals with bird-like feet were roaming the planet more than 200 million years ago, scientists say. Analysis of ancient footprints, which experts were calling Trisauropodiscus, suggest these ...
By studying beaks in light of this mathematical rule, we can understand how the faces of birds and other dinosaurs evolved over 200 million years.
Learn more about Eotephradactylus mcintireae, the oldest Late Triassic Pterosaur in North America that was about the size of sea gull.
Dinosaurs trod the planet from about 231 million years ago to 66 million years ago during the Mesozoic Era. Their bird descendants remain with us today.
Birds Nested Alongside Dinosaurs in Alaska 73 Million Years Ago Learn more about the earliest evidence of birds breeding and nesting in the Arctic, a behavior that millions of birds continue to this ...
Discover the hidden mathematical rule governing the growth and shape of bird and dinosaur beaks in nature.
A tiny black bird was spotted on a Galápagos island for the first time in nearly 200 years — when Charles Darwin first discovered it. The Galápagos Rail, considered a near-endangered species ...
By 1957, scientists had a significantly more sophisticated understanding of influenza, worrying them that a pandemic similar to that of 1918 could easily erupt, killing millions again.
Yet, even if Townsend’s warbler officially becomes, say, the “fir-forest warbler,” its skin, and the others he collected nearly two centuries ago, will have secrets to share for years to come.
A fossilized skull of a bird that lived 80 million years ago places the species, called Navaornis, between the earliest known bird, Archaeopteryx, and modern (crown) birds.
Nearly 12 million years ago, the largest "terror bird" ever discovered was attacked and killed by a massive caiman, a 3D analysis of its fossilized leg suggests.
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Jenna McCullough, A PhD candidate at the University of New Mexico is calling into question 200 years of assumptions about a species of bird in Africa.