To know what a tropical bird is, you first have to know where the tropics are. The tropics form a band around the equator ...

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

The St. Bathans currawong would have been black in color, different from the black and white Australian magpie bird.

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

Fossil scrapes in Colorado suggest dinosaurs gathered for mating displays in what may be the world’s largest courtship arena.

While fossil trackways are widely used to estimate the speed of extinct animals, especially dinosaurs, new research suggests ...

"Walking with Dinosaurs" and Benson Boone's sophomore album "American Heart" are some of the new television, films, music and games headed to a device near you.

A turtle’s head seems simple: a hard beak, two bright eyes, and a quilt of scales that protect the skull. Look closer and a mystery appears, because the polygons across the crown don’t line up with ...

This dinosaur’s skull was light as air but its mouth was packed with power—and a unique ability to quickly grow teeth. Here’s ...

By studying beaks in light of this mathematical rule, we can understand how the faces of birds and other dinosaurs evolved over 200 million years. We can also find out why, in rare instances ...

The prehistoric bird lost its feathers all at once, while many modern birds molt in waves. Regrowing feathers uses a lot of energy, which may have contributed to its extinction post-asteroid.

Fossilized egg shells found in Alberta from a bird-like dinosaur called the troodon offer new evidence about how dinosaurs lived, bred and evolved into birds, a new study reports.