In this Brooklyn Bird Watch, we’ll share some fascinating facts and theories about the life of birds millions of years ago, and stay tuned for follow-up pieces about the current realities of our ...

The study of palaeontology has long provided a window into the dynamic evolutionary history of dinosaurs and their avian descendants. Recent research has uncovered intricate details regarding the ...

A 'one of a kind' fossil discovery could transform our understanding of how the unique brains and intelligence of modern birds evolved, one of the most enduring mysteries of vertebrate evolution. A ...

An artist’s interpretation of Vegavis iaai diving for fish in the shallow ocean off the coast of the Antarctic peninsula, with ammonites and plesiosaurs for company. A new study in Nature describing a ...

Some paleontologists think that fossils recovered from Antarctica are evidence of birds similar to modern geese and ducks that lived alongside the dinosaurs. By Asher Elbein Asher Elbein previously ...

"It sounds like science fiction or the stuff of Hollywood movies." ...

Where they lived: Dinosaur fossils have been found on every continent, including Antarctica. What they ate: Some ate plants, while others ate animals, including other dinosaurs. How big they were: The ...

When colossal asteroids rock Earth, it's not all doom and gloom. The menacing asteroid that wiped out non-avian dinosaurs left a colossal marine crater in what's now the Yucatan Peninsula. But after ...

Imagine the sound of a dinosaur roaring... Super loud, right? Wrong... It turns out the giant prehistoric creatures almost certainly didn't roar. You might be surprised to hear that some scientists ...