The repeated evolution of huge birds is part of the dinosaurian legacy. Beaked birds were the only dinosaurs to have survived ...

Our knowledge of this period of bird evolution is growing rapidly. Since 1990, more than three times as many bird fossils dating from the Cretaceous have been discovered than were found in the ...

A research team has created a comprehensive evolutionary tree of all bird species, integrating data from hundreds of studies ...

The first Archaeopteryx fossil, which showed reptile and bird-like features, supported Charles Darwin’s ideas on evolution and showed that birds evolved from dinosaurs. The new study was able to ...

“Big Bird Taken Off Death Row,” announced a Washington Post ... decade” since she characterized other Americans as ...

Professor Emily Jane McTavish and colleagues at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology have mapped the evolution of every known bird species. They created a complete evolutionary tree of bird species by ...

This undated handout photo shows two images together with an interpretive line drawing of the Chicago Archaeopteryx, a ...

“I built this big family tree that put into ... out and that can tell you the narrative of how evolution took a dinosaur and turned it into a bird.” “We can also calibrate that tree to ...