A new study measuring the cognitive skills of paleognaths – the small-brained, generally flightless, and more stereotypically dinosaur-like class of birds that includes ostriches, emus ...

Baminornis had the advanced chest and short tail found in modern birds, but the forelimb shape of raptor dinosaurs. The bird may have weighed 140-300 grams (4.9-10.6 ounces), or about the same as ...

Recent research suggests that Velociraptor mongoliensis was a feathered dinosaur. A forelimb fossil discovered in Mongolia showed quill knobs like those found in many modern birds. These telltale ...

Birds are actually dinosaurs. They evolved from theropods, a group of mostly meat-eaters that included Velociraptor and T.

The Archaeopteryx, a bird-like dinosaur that scientists describe ... more reptilian traits and a long tail similar to that of a velociraptor, researchers today believe the Baminornis’ light ...

The ability to fly evolved in the branch of dinosaurs that gave rise to birds, as well as in another closely related group – the dromaeosaurs, more popularly known as raptors. The traits that enabled ...

Modern birds are the living relatives of dinosaurs. Take a look at the features of flightless birds like chickens and ...

These “little skeletons of raptor dinosaurs, sheathed in feathers, wings coming out of their arms” were the “final clue that said yes, absolutely, birds really did evolve from dinosaurs ...

in pre-modern birds and near-bird dinosaurs like Velociraptor, these areas are proportionally much smaller. While Vegavis has features that clearly mark it as being in the same group of waterfowl ...