The “one-of-a-kind” fossil of Navaornis hestiae helps fill a giant gap in scientists’ understanding of how bird brains ...

A ‘one of a kind’ fossil discovery could transform our understanding of how the unique brains and intelligence of modern ...

Interestingly, this fossil fills a 70-million-year-long gap in our knowledge between the early bird-like dinosaurs ...

The fossil, which included 80% of the bird's skeleton, indicated it was a competent flier. Its name means "Nava's bird," ...

A FLESH-EATING bird has been uncovered after nearly 12 million years in a Colombian desert. Scientists revealed this extinct “Terror Bird” was the largest of its kind but explained which ...

Working in collaboration with the company Nature Perspectives, Jack chose the specimens to bring back to life, including dodo and whale skeletons, a taxidermied red panda and a preserved cockroach.

Perhaps the dodo wouldn’t be so well-known today if Lewis Carroll hadn’t included it as a character in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865). The flightless bird’s popularity was further amplified ...

A study of a remarkable medieval skeleton found in a well at a castle in Norway has helped to corroborate events detailed in an 800-year-old Norse saga. Michael Martin, one of the authors of the ...

In 1938, a medieval well in the ruins of Sverresborg castle was partly drained and a skeleton was found beneath rubble and boulders at the bottom. While it was widely believed that the skeleton ...

Early birds posed a fearsome threat. But as they responded to these competitors, cicadas evolved sleeker and more powerful wings, according to a paper published on Friday in the journal Science ...

Here’s how it works. The rapid evolution of cicadas' flight ability may have been spurred by the emergence of predatory birds, new research suggests. These insects' bodies and wing shapes ...

No one in Northern Ireland has been prosecuted for illegally killing birds of prey, despite 89 confirmed incidents in the past 15 years. The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB)’s ...