Among the many unique qualities of this long-extinct Antarctic bird, it seems to have been the earliest creature that could ...

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New research has revealed that birds, reptiles, and mammals have developed complex brain circuits independently, despite sharing a common ancestor. These findings challenge the traditional view of ...

The age of the dinosaurs may conjure images of large, fearsome reptiles in the minds of many – but those were far from the ...

Baminornis is a landmark discovery and ranks among the most important bird fossils unearthed since the discovery ...

Birds are the most diverse land vertebrates. Some studies suggest their earliest diversification dates back to the Jurassic ...

Scientists have discovered the oldest bird fossil shedding light on birds' origin in China, and reshaping the timeline of ...

Wang Min, a researcher at the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, speaks ...

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Cooper’s research expertise in skeletal development will bridge the investigation from birds to mammals. Her laboratory at UC ...

Pinpointing when birds diverged completely from dinosaurs has long remained a paleontological mystery.

For more than a century, paleontologists believed that fossilization erased all traces of organic molecules from dinosaur ...