Cranial kinesis allows modern birds to eat a wider variety of foods and use their beaks as multifunctional tools.

Scientists suggest that bigger brains in bird ancestors led to more flexible skulls, playing a key role in their evolution.

A 69-million-year-old fossilized skull unearthed in Antarctica could rewrite the history of modern birds. The nearly complete skull belongs to Vegavis iaai, a prehistoric waterfowl species that ...

A new study in Nature describing a fossil of a nearly complete and intact bird skull from Antarctica is shedding light on the early evolution of today’s birds and avian diversity at the end of ...