New research shows how physical changes in the skull affected the mechanics of the way birds move and use their beaks to eat and explore their habitats -- adaptations that helped them evolve into the ...

Cerapodan body fossils, however, have been harder to come by. For some time, the oldest example was a 164-million-year-old ...

A fossilized dinosaur skeleton, first spotted in 1973 on the Isle of Skye, has finally been excavated and studied, revealing ...

Bone analysis has led researchers to believe it is an ornithopod dinosaur, a group which includes notable later dinosaurs such as Iguanodon ... and the world’s largest Jurassic pterosaur ...

Bone analysis has led researchers to believe it is an ornithopod dinosaur, a group which includes notable later dinosaurs such as Iguanodon ... more slowly than mammals today, and the world’s largest ...