The two species share a remarkable biological past. Our palaeontologist Professor Paul Barrett explains how this understanding of dinosaur evolution is transforming the way scientists think. Birds ...
This image changed when we started to realize that dinosaurs were far more similar to birds than to modern-day lizards. Today, researchers agree that birds are technically dinosaurs — the only ...
Feathers are highly complex natural structures and they're key to the success of birds. But they initially evolved in dinosaurs, birds' extinct ancestors. Leading the study, Professor Cheng-Ming ...
Dinosaurs could thrive and survive in Earth’s prehistoric, oxygen-thin atmosphere due to having lungs like birds a new study has found. The study, published in Royal Society Open Science, compared ...
the earliest known bird-like dinosaur, and birds living today. Navaornis had a larger cerebrum than Archaeopteryx, suggesting it had more advanced cognitive capabilities than the earliest bird ...
Interestingly, this fossil fills a 70-million-year-long gap in our knowledge between the early bird-like dinosaurs ...
Ask just about any paleontologist, and he or she will tell you that life found a way and that some dinosaurs survived the mass extinction. That’s because today’s birds are the last remaining ...
Now Brusatte and other paleontologists are trying to determine exactly how feathered dinosaurs achieved powered flight and became the birds that fly overhead today – an evolutionary mystery that ...
One of the key features of the dinosaurs is that they walked upright. Rather than having their legs out to the side, like in ...
Birds descended from the dinosaurs, but researchers have known relatively little about how the bird's brain took shape over ...
No, it seems egg color is something that was passed down over millions of years from dinosaurs. At this point, the idea that birds are actually just what’s left of dinosaurs is widely accepted ...
A 'one of a kind' fossil discovery could transform our understanding of how the unique brains and intelligence of modern ...