The birds of today descended from the dinosaurs of yore. Researchers have known relatively little, however, about how the bird's brain took shape over tens of millions of years. "Birds are one of ...

Navaornis lived approximately 80 million years ago in what is now Brazil, before the mass extinction event that killed all non-avian dinosaurs. The researchers say their discovery, reported in the ...

The 80-million-year-old complete skull of a bird is revealing more about the evolution of brain structure from the earliest known bird-like dinosaurs to modern birds. A ‘one of a kind’ discovery could ...

Navaornis lived approximately 80 million years ago in what is now Brazil, before the mass extinction event that killed all non-avian dinosaurs. Artist’s impression of Navaornis. Credit: Júlia ...

Experts had speculated that the key to this exceptional preservation might be related to the volcanism of the area, with some believing that eruptions occurred in waves that buried the dinosaurs ...

Paleontologists debate whether silesaurids were true dinosaurs or possibly a precursor to the creatures that once dominated the Earth. Paleontologist from the Federal University of Santa Maria ...

Others argue that silesaurids were grouped together because they contained some of the anatomical features of later ornithischians—herbivorous dinosaurs including Stegosaurus and Triceratops ...

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By the 1990s, it was clear that the so-called Yixian Formation contained uniquely well preserved remains of dinosaurs, birds, mammals, insects, frogs, turtles and other creatures. Unlike the ...

The geological record suggests that meteorites larger than the one that killed the dinosaurs hit the early Earth at least every 15 million years. Life was resilient, Drabon said, but those impacts ...

A fossil of the world's oldest tadpole, which coexisted with dinosaurs in the Middle Jurassic about 165 million years ago, is pictured next to a 3D-printed representation of the tadpole and of a ...

The first fossils of Stegosaurus dinosaur footprints in Korea have been found in Cheonggok-ri, Sadeung-myeon, Geoje-si, Gyeongsangnam-do. On the 14th, Geoje City announced that the first ...