With its glaciers and sub-zero temperatures, Antarctica hardly seems like a place of refuge. However, the now icy continent ...
A towering red sandstone mesa loomed over it all. Birds always dotted the skies and the land, and my grandfather would point out which ones carried his prayers near, far, close to the ground, and up ...
A 68-million-year-old skull fossil found in Antarctica has revealed the oldest known modern bird, which was likely related to ...
After birds began to evolve separately from dinosaurs at the end of the Jurassic period (around 150 million years ago), two groups of species developed. The Enantiorinthes, which had teeth and clawed ...
THE long-lost forefather of the beloved duck and goose has been discovered, after outliving the hardy dinosaurs. The ...
New work on old specimens, and the discoveries of dinosaur and early bird species in the field, supported the idea that dinosaurs were the direct ancestors of birds. Many features and behaviours that ...
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Are birds reptiles?
"I would say that any modern biologist would, or should, say that birds are reptiles," Martin Stervander, an evolutionary ...
The new skull exhibits a long, pointed beak and a brain shape unique among all known birds previously discovered from the ...
A towering red sandstone mesa loomed over it all. Birds always dotted the skies and the land, and my grandfather would point out which ones carried his prayers near, far, close to the ground ...