Ancient Australia’s predator hierarchy was flipped — giant raptors ruled while T. rex-like dinosaurs stayed small.

Large birds -- our closest relations to dinosaurs -- are capable of technical innovation, by solving a physical task to gain access to food.

Between 122 and 108 million years ago, the Australian landmass was much farther south than today. Victoria was positioned within the Antarctic Circle, separated from Tasmania by a vast rift valley ...

Fossils are providing more and more clues about how dinosaurs attracted one another and reproduced, which contributed to ...

Jurassic bird fossil discovery of a species named Baminornis zhenghensis pushes bird evolution timeline back 20 million years ...

The skull exhibits a long, pointed beak and a brain shape unique among all known birds previously discovered from the ...

The intricate journey from dinosaurs to birds represents one of the most captivating sagas in the history of evolution. This ...

An artistic depiction of the Late Cretaceous modern (crown) bird, Vegavis iaai, pursuit diving for fish in the shallow ocean ...

Certain birds that gave rise to today’s ducks and geese found sanctuary in Antarctica during a mass extinction event 66 ...

How might you make your mark on the world forever? Write a play more timeless than Shakespeare, or compose music to out-do ...

Birds are the only living descendants of dinosaurs, but how and when they evolved into the species we see today has been a subject of great scientific debate. The recent discovery of a 68-million-year ...

Loon-like waterfowl from dinosaur-era Antarctica is oldest 'modern' bird Fossils of Vegavis were first described two decades ago. But without sufficient cranial remains its place on the bird ...