Tag: Early Birds
Bird fossils dating back millions of years found in Poland
The areas of present-day south-eastern Poland used to be covered by a shallow sea. But apart from fossil fish, invertebrates and plants, bird remains...
Chinese paleontologists find new fossil link in bird evolution
Birds descended from theropod dinosaurs by the Late Jurassic, but our understanding of the earliest evolution of the Avialae, the clade comprising all modern...
Fossils reveal how ancient birds molted their feathers—which may explain why ancestors of modern birds survived when all the other dinosaurs died
Every bird you've ever seen -- every robin, every pigeon, every penguin at the zoo -- is a living dinosaur. Birds are the only...
The largest penguin that ever lived
Fossil bones from two newly-described penguin species, one of them thought to be the largest penguin to ever live – weighing more than 150...
Fossil overturns more than a century of knowledge about the origin of modern birds
Fossilised fragments of a skeleton, hidden within a rock the size of a grapefruit, have helped upend one of the longest-standing assumptions about the origins of...
Going to the ‘femoral head’ of the class to explain dinosaur evolution
Dinosaurs—and birds—wouldn't have been able to stand on their own two feet without some radical changes to their upper thigh bones. Now, a new...