Shoebill birds can reach a height of five feet, but the prehistoric-looking creatures generally aren't taller than people.

Scientists have known for some time that birds like chickens and ostriches are the closest living relatives of the Tyrannosaurus rex. Now, a newly discovered fossil of a bird-like dinosaur could ...

Sept 6 (Reuters) - About 148 to 150 million years ago, a strange pheasant-sized and bird-like dinosaur with elongated legs and arms built much like wings inhabited southeastern China, with a puzzling ...

might have looked in life, more than 150 million years ago. A recently discovered fossil has led Chinese researchers to conclude that a previously identified dino-bird species was an ...

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(Reuters) - About 148 to 150 million years ago, a strange pheasant-sized and bird-like dinosaur with elongated legs and arms built much like wings inhabited southeastern China, with a puzzling anatomy ...

Birds and dinosaurs lived together for millions of years, but only toothless birds survived the asteroid impact that upended ...

For birds, black feathers provide certain flight advantages. That's because black feathers contain more pigment-packed melanosomes than do feathers of other colors, and melanosomes can bind with ...

The dinosaur lived in the deserts of what is now Mongolia some 65 million years ago. Its skeleton is among the most bizarre of all dinosaurs, the study said. The new study investigated how vision and ...

The genes that caused scales to become feathers in the early ancestors of birds have been found by US scientists. By expressing these genes in embryo alligator skin, the researchers caused the ...

Dino Bird is a visually spectacular one-hour film that explores the life of the endangered southern cassowary through the eyes of matriarch Bertha, as she and her family strive to survive in the ...