Despite their modest beginnings, birds survived the asteroid strike ... Based on the anatomy of its long legs, the researchers proposed two possible lifestyles - either fast running or wading ...

Have you ever tried to balance on one leg? While some yoga masters make this move appear simple, it’s not as easy as it looks ...

Around 150 million years ago, a bird-like dinosaur with very long legs roamed around a swampy area in what is today southeast China. Exactly what the pheasant-sized creature was capable of doing ...

any two-legged animal risks toppling. Bipedal dinosaurs kept on their feet by distributing weight across long necks and bony tails. But as bird ancestors increasingly took wing, Clarke says ...

Meet the secretary bird. This long-legged bird of prey packs a powerful punch. Where most of its raptor relatives use flight as a way to capture snakes, the secretary bird stalks the grassy ...

Such a combination of colors is, noticeable enough, but when to this are added extraordinarily long blue legs and a very slender bill, comprising nearly a fourth of the bird's entire length and ...

Researchers including a Johns Hopkins University evolutionary biologist report they have analyzed a fossil of an extinct giant meat-eating bird—which they say could be the largest known member of its ...

Despite their modest beginnings, birds survived the asteroid strike ... Based on the anatomy of its long legs, the researchers proposed two possible lifestyles – either fast running or wading ...