Imagine peering into your backyard and spotting a creature whose ancestors once thundered across ancient landscapes alongside ...

But the creature also had wings and bore feathers -- certainly birdlike traits. Despite the increasingly clear picture of the evolution of birds from theropod dinosaurs that has emerged ...

A spat between birds at a backyard birdfeeder highlights the sometimes fierce competition for resources that animals face in ...

But a bird wing is vastly more sophisticated than anything ... transforming them from gliders to true powered fliers. In short, the evolution of feathers would have happened along with the ...

The evolution of insect-eating birds may have spurred rapid changes in the flight ability of ancient cicadas, according to ...

Good, because you may be shocked to learn that evolution can retrace its ... When meat-eating dinosaurs evolved into birds, the wrist joint in the wing, between the middle and final segments ...

Convergent evolution is responsible for the wings of the bat, the bird, and the pterodactyl. In each case, the forelimbs of these vertebrates morphed over time into wings, but they did so ...

“What we found was there was the slow, steady kind of gradual evolution,” says Steve. Many of the features that we think of when we think of birds – feathers, wings, wishbones, and beaks ...

The creature was likely covered in plumage, but also had teeth as well as claws on its wings. The study was published in Nature Communications. The tiny bird measures just a few centimeters ...