Tracks believed to be the work of small, scampering dinosaurs may have been made by birds, pushing back the date of the ...

Pterosaurs combined flight, size, and physical strength in ways rarely seen in the animal kingdom. This video compares their anatomy and behavior to modern birds, reptiles, and terrestrial predators.

One of Earth’s earliest mass extinctions wiped out most ocean life during a sudden global ice age. From the ruins, jawed vertebrates survived, diversified, and transformed the course of evolution.

Last November we featured an extraordinary image showing a dinosaur-like shoebill that had landed on a bird-watching boat, seemingly dwarfing tourists in the background. “We were all shocked to see ...

With studies of fossilized bones, gut contents, eggshells and more, paleontologists revealed new and captivating details about the enormous reptiles that once roamed the Earth Newly discovered species ...

A new study led by a researcher from the School of Zoology and the Steinhardt Museum of Natural History at Tel Aviv University examined dinosaur fossils preserved with their feathers and found that ...

The woodpecker is a unique bird species that has gone through some mysteriously acquired adaptations since the extinction of the dinosaurs. Fossils tell us, without any explanations of course (because ...

Last month we featured footage of an enormous, dinosaur-like shoebill that had landed on a tour boat in Uganda. The ominous-looking bird, with its bulbous, razor-sharp bill, stood perhaps 4 feet tall ...

If you’ve seen the viral video of the large shoebill bird landing on a boat in Africa’s Mabamba Swamp, you might be asking yourself if such a prehistoric-looking, seemingly giant bird could be real.

Everyone knows what a bird is – and pretty much everyone knows what a dinosaur is. But not everyone is aware that birds evolved from dinosaurs approximately 160 million years ago. In fact, birds and ...