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A new bird fossil helps scientists better understand convergent evolution of complex anatomy and provides new insights into the evolution of face and beak shape in a forerunner of modern birds.

Biologists have created chicken embryos with dinosaur-like faces by successfully replicating the molecular process that made dinosaur snouts evolve into bird beaks. A team of researchers, led by ...

The past hundred million years or so have not been kind to the dinosaurs. Once formidable “terrible lizards,” their closest modern descendant is the distinctly unimpressive chicken. Now scientists say ...

For paleontologists who study animals that lived long ago, fossilized remains tell only part of the story of an animal's life. While a well-preserved skeleton can provide hints at what an ancient ...

Scientists have successfully replicated the molecular processes that led from dinosaur snouts to the first bird beaks. Using the fossil record as a guide, a research team led by Yale paleontologist ...

Archaeologists have unearthed a Bronze Age skeleton that was buried with an unusual garment: a collar or headdress made of dozens of bird beaks and skulls. The so-called birdman's remains, which date ...

About 3.5 million years ago, carnivorous birds with hooked beaks standing 10 feet (3 meters) tall roamed parts of South America in search of prey. Now, researchers ...

Terror birds are a group of extinct apex predators with huge skulls, long legs, and massive, hooked beaks. These carnivorous flightless birds stalked South America ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Scientists have discovered the 52-million-year-old remains of the earliest known ancestors of birds like the robin and ...

About 3.5 million years ago, 10-foot-tall carnivorous birds with hooked beaks roamed parts of South America in search of prey. Now, researchers have found a nearly ...