Imagine peering into your backyard and spotting a creature whose ancestors once thundered across ancient landscapes alongside ...

Who would have thought an ostrich had so much in common with a dinosaur? But look at a side-by-side image of a ...

The fossils finally have confirmed, to all but a few skeptics, that birds descended from dinosaurs and are the living representatives of a dinosaur lineage called the Maniraptorans. Most dinosaurs ...

Our palaeontologist Professor Paul Barrett explains how this understanding of dinosaur evolution is transforming the way scientists think. Birds that fill the world’s skies today are living dinosaurs, ...

Fossils of alvarezsaurid dinosaurs show bird-like air sacs in their bones. Scans revealed hollow spaces connected to their ...

Did dinosaurs like these dromaeosaurs dine on ... Other experts argued that all birds living before the cataclysm were of the more primitive persuasion, like the ones whose fossils were found ...

Sam Ose and Olai Skjaervoy, licensed under CC BY 2.0, via Flickr As living dinosaurs, birds can be used to test some of the ideas that palaeontologists have proposed based on bones alone. They also ...

Clearly, Ostrom argued, birds were the living descendants of theropods ... Other paleontologists argued that birds did not evolve from dinosaurs—rather, their similarities derived from a ...

It’s fun to imagine secret dinosaur survivors living today, hidden in a remote corner of Earth. But the truth of who made it through the extinction event 66 million years ago may surprise you.

Scientists uncover the first air pockets in Alvarezsaurid, revealing new clues about ancient bird-like traits.

oxygen-thin atmosphere due to having lungs like birds a new study has found. The study, published in Royal Society Open Science, compared dinosaur lungs to those of living crocodilians, such as ...