A new artificial intelligence system is drawing renewed attention to one of paleontology’s oldest controversies. At the ...

Tracks believed to be the work of small, scampering dinosaurs may have been made by birds, pushing back the date of the ...

(CNN) — When a fossil preserves an animal’s complete body in a death pose, seeing it is observing a snapshot in time. Several such fossils exist for Archaeopteryx — the earliest known bird — and now, ...

But in the thousands of fossil birds in the same group as this little fossil, none have ever been found with gizzard stones. To help determine if the new little bird was simply the first of its kind ...

Seems like there’s a Shazam for everything nowadays. First it was music, then plants, then plant diseases. You can even ask ...

A remarkable fossil in the National Museum of Natural History’s collection reveals that the ancestors of modern flightless birds were capable of flying long distances Jack Tamisiea Ostriches, emus and ...

Flinders University paleontology researchers—with local fossil experts—have discovered how prolific shorebirds, including the ...

Dinosaur skeletons often dominate museum halls, from the towering Tyrannosaurus rex known as Sue in Chicago to Sophie the ...

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The new study suggests that 73 million years ago, birds and dinosaurs lived side by side in the Arctic. Gabriel Ugueto Early birds were nesting in the cold landscape of the Arctic during the age of ...

Time now for our science news roundup from Short Wave, NPR's science podcast. I'm joined by the show's two hosts, Regina Barber and Emily Kwong. Hey to both of you. REGINA BARBER, BYLINE: Hey. EMILY ...

The unlucky fossil bird, preserved with over 800 tiny rocks in its throat (visible as the gray mass next to the left of its neck bones). A fossil only tells part of the story. When an animal’s body is ...