A new study found that birds' dinosaur relatives had eggs with traces of two pigments—a red-brown one and a blue-green one. In today's birds that might produce a color such as robin's egg blue.

Drop any preconceptions of dinosaurs, which are likely reptile-centric and warped by Spielberg; the real dinosaurs are outside your window. Yes, birds are dinosaurs. Shaun Hurrell interviews dinosaur ...

From Quanta Magazine (find original story here). Modern birds descended from a group of two-legged dinosaurs known as theropods, whose members include the towering Tyrannosaurus rex and the ...

The work indicates the dazzling variety of colors and patterns in modern bird eggs traces back to a single evolutionary origin in nonavian dinosaurs. (Technically, birds are a subgroup of ...

Since the 1960s, fossil discoveries have confirmed the scientific consensus that birds evolved from the group of predatory ...

Birds are dinosaurs. ... The dinosaurs most closely related to birds showed a different pattern. The eumaniraptoran dinosaurs—the group that contains the sickle-clawed, ...

Fossil casting of Archaeopteryx, a therapod dinosaur that lived during the Late Jurassic period (around 150 million years ago).Many fossils of Archaeopteryx include impressions of feathers. James ...

That shrinkage sped up once bird ancestors grew wings and began experimenting with gliding flight. Last year, Benton’s team showed that this dinosaur lineage, known as paraves, was shrinking 160 times ...

The world's largest-known dinosaur mating display area may have been found hiding in plain site at Colorado's Dinosaur Ridge ...

Picture a bird egg: Perhaps it’s the cocoa brown of a free-range chicken. Or a robin’s creamy blue-green. If it’s a quail egg, it has inky speckles. Those colors and variations, according to ...

New research suggests that some birds evolved over time to have smaller bodies and maintain the large brains of their ancestors. And the biggest evolutionary event happened after the dinosaurs ...

That’s not all: chickens are close relations of dinosaurs, and genetic patterns in the brains of birds that learn new calls show remarkable similarities to humans.