Analysis of an ancient bird feather encased in dinosaur feces may have solved the 66-million-year-old mystery of why modern ...

Just how do birds mate and reproduce? Stuart Blackman explains the intricacies of bird sex and why males don't have penises ...

A feather discovered inside 66-million-year-old fossilized dinosaur poop may help explain why modern birds survived the ...

An extremely well preserved fossil feather could reveal why some birds survived the dinosaur-killing asteroid, and others did ...

While attempting to dismiss evidence for observed evolution, the creationist turns to birds whose beaks differ depending on the food available in their environment. He explains that birds with heavier ...

For millions of years, birds have been changing in ways that are difficult to see from the present day. A skeleton in a museum may look like a fixed record of one species, but taken together, ...

The closest living relatives of crocodiles and alligators are, perhaps surprisingly, birds. They are both archosauriforms, a group of species that originated about 250 million years ago near the ...

A new genomic study from Smithsonian scientists traces the honeycreepers’ explosive diversification to the formation of O’ahu millions of years ago, offering fresh insight into a group of birds now ...

University of Michigan scientists have used artificial intelligence to uncover a striking pattern in the evolution of Passeriformes, the vast bird group that includes most songbirds. Their analysis ...

The transition from a lumbering, heavy dinosaur body to the flight-adapted bird body plan is one of many fascinating episodes in evolutionary history. Working out how this massive transformation took ...

The great Iranian director Asghar Farhadi is back in Cannes competition for a fifth time with his first film in five years and arguably one that ranks with his very best. That is a high bar since two ...