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

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

During a boat tour in Uganda, this huge, dinosaur-like bird landed on a tourist boat. The shoebill made an impressive sight.

Mabamba Bay, on Lake Victoria, is a globally recognized Important Bird Area, in which shoebills, along with blue swallows and ...

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The finding extends by 63 million years the fossil record of the Alvarezsauridae family, a group of bird-like dinosaurs with a large claw on their hands and very short, powerful arms. It was the first ...

Modern science reveals dinosaurs were more intelligent than previously thought, with Troodon formosus standing out as an exceptional thinker. This small predator possessed a large brain, advanced ...

Hans Larsson, a researcher in macro-evolution at Montreal's McGill University, said he aims to develop dinosaur traits that disappeared millions of years ago in birds. Mr Larsson believes by flipping ...

AN ANCIENT predator that lived before the dinosaurs was a “precursor” of the modern crocodile. Experts have shed light on the ...

Forget Jurassic Park — the real dinosaurs never left. From cassowaries to chickens, modern birds still bear the bones, claws, and killer instincts of their prehistoric kin. Evolution didn’t erase the ...

At 35,000sqm, the Natural History Museum Abu Dhabi is the largest museum of its kind in the Middle East. Photo Credit: Abu ...