Despite the increasingly clear picture of the evolution of birds from theropod dinosaurs that has emerged, a few scientists are still unconvinced. No alternative hypothesis has been offered to ...

New study shows how bird traits like gene makeup and clutch size shape evolution. This may help scientists understand ...

These lessons were designed to accompany the first two parts of the PBS Life of ... for the evolution of flight. From the Galapagos Islands to New Zealand, species of birds that exist today ...

"We wanted to synthesize these global data resources to see what environmental factors shape biodiversity." Scientists ...

The evolution of lifespan can be viewed as a ... for example in flies, fish, or birds, life history biologists have provided us with some compelling answers to fundamental questions such as ...

Known as Vegavis iaai, the bird thrived in late-Cretaceous Antarctica, then a tropical paradise. About a million years before the asteroid that wiped out 75% of life on Earth, it went extinct.

Evolution is nature's engine, driving and shaping genetic change and the diversity around us. Charles Darwin famously ...

Feathers are among the most complex cutaneous appendages in the animal kingdom. While their evolutionary origin has been ...

New research shows how physical changes in the skull affected the mechanics of the way birds move and use their beaks to eat and explore their habitats -- adaptations that helped them evolve into the ...

And it’s the same thing with evolution.” The features that birds today need for flight evolved ... Prof Steve Brusatte tells Jim Al-Khalili about his life and work studying dinosaurs, mammals ...

Discovery: Powerful 'ghost particle' with clues about the universe Braun, who was not part of the study and focuses his research on bird genome evolution, told USA TODAY discovering when species ...