In a recent study, Dr. Katelyn Bishop conducted a zooarchaeological and archival data reanalysis of macaws and parrots ...

Tens of millions of years ago, a diverse array of bird species soared, swam, and thrived amid their scaly reptile cousins—and ...

A 69-million-year-old skull found in Antarctica belonged to what scientists say is the oldest known modern bird. An early relative of the continent’s ducks and geese, it lived off the Antarctic coast ...

A long-lost prehistoric bird species makes a triumphant comeback in its native land after being considered extinct.

Little bush moa (third from left) are related to the ostrich, rhea, and tinamou. Wing bones are greatly reduced in ostrich and rhea and completely absent in moa. Ostrich, rhea and moa also have ...

Around 120 million years ago, a bird swallowed over 800 tiny stones and choked to death as a result. Paleontologists aren’t sure why. Like many recent fossil “discoveries,” researchers with the Field ...

It’s interesting to imagine what the world looked like millions of years ago. Not just the massive-sized dinosaurs or the green, ancient landscapes, but all the colours that filled those scenes. Many ...

Navaornis hestiae (center) documents a previously unknown intermediate stage in the evolution of the central nervous system between the earliest birds (like Archaeopteryx on the left) and living birds ...

think the biggest bird around is an ostrich think again the prehistoric world was home to birds so massive so terrifying they'd make an ostrich look like a pet parakeet ever seen a creature as big as ...