In this Brooklyn Bird Watch, we’ll share some fascinating facts and theories about the life of birds millions of years ago, and stay tuned for follow-up pieces about the current realities of our ...

How birds evolved from dinosaurs is a dinosaur paleontology question that extends all the way back to the late 1800s. After Charles Darwin published his “Origin of Species” in 1859, one of his friends ...

The study of palaeontology has long provided a window into the dynamic evolutionary history of dinosaurs and their avian descendants. Recent research has uncovered intricate details regarding the ...

Paleontologists have made a discovery that can change how we understand dinosaurs. Despite centuries of research into ancient ...

Pterosaurs acquired flight "in a burst at their origin," giving scientists new insights into the biological laws of flight ...

BEIJING — The remains of a giant, birdlike dinosaur as tall as the formidable tyrannosaur have been found in China, a surprising discovery that indicates a more complicated evolutionary process for ...

Ancient pterosaurs may have taken to the skies far earlier and more explosively than birds, evolving flight at their very ...