Over the past half century, researchers have established that birds evolved from dinosaurs: specifically, the theropods, the ...

Navaornis hestiae lived 80 million years ago in Brazil Scientists digitally reconstruct its brain and inner ear Its brain combined archaic, modern and unique traits Nov 13 (Reuters) - The brains of ...

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Songbirds on the UCLA campus changed beak shapes during the pandemic, according to a new study. Researchers suspect it might be a case of rapid evolution.

A pigment that makes feathers and hair orange helps prevent cellular damage by removing excess cysteine from cells.

Reconstruction of a Late Triassic landscape (approximately 215 million years ago). A lagerpetid, a close relative of pterosaurs, is perched on a rock, observing pterosaurs flying overhead. Tübingen, ...

New research has found that, unlike birds, the evolution of bats' wings and legs is tightly coupled, which may have prevented them from filling as many ecological niches as birds. New Cornell ...