Two fossils suggest that birds were thriving and diversifying in China as the Jurassic Period closed, new research reveals.

Digital reconstruction of the Late Cretaceous (~69 million years old) crown bird Vegavis iaai that was completed following ...

The bird has a short tail ending in a pygostyle, an important aerodynamic innovation moving the center of mass forward toward ...

Three dinosaur-themed bounce houses await and there’s a Jurassic Quest gift shop called the Dino Store, which sells ...

The fossil sheds light on interactions within the Cretaceous food web and may represent the first record of this type of ...

That was life - and death - in the Cretaceous Period in the Canadian province of Alberta. Scientists have unearthed in the badlands of Alberta's Dinosaur Provincial Park the fossilized neck bone ...

Additionally, astronomers speculated on neutron star land forms, paleontologists reported a previously unknown Cretaceous-era predator and a tech start-up is building a living seawall in Florida ...

Now, a fossil hunter in Denmark named Peter Bennicke has found the remains of this Cretaceous snack: fossilized vomit. The discovery was announced Monday in a statement from the natural history ...

Several factors contributed to the survival of crocodiles, turtles, lizards and birds 66 million years ago, say our readers ...

A research team led by Professor Wang Min from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) of the ...

A 68-million-year-old skull fossil found in Antarctica has revealed the oldest known modern bird, which was likely related to ...

For decades, scientists have wondered at the taxonomy of Vegavis iaai— an ancient avian specimen that lived in what is now ...