The birds of today descended from the dinosaurs of yore. Researchers have known relatively little, however, about how the bird's brain took shape over tens of millions of years. "Birds are one of ...
Navaornis lived approximately 80 million years ago in what is now Brazil, before the mass extinction event that killed all non-avian dinosaurs. The researchers say their discovery, reported in the ...
The 80-million-year-old complete skull of a bird is revealing more about the evolution of brain structure from the earliest known bird-like dinosaurs to modern birds. A ‘one of a kind’ discovery could ...
Navaornis lived approximately 80 million years ago in what is now Brazil, before the mass extinction event that killed all non-avian dinosaurs. Artist’s impression of Navaornis. Credit: Júlia ...
Ankylosaur armor could likely withstand the impact of a high-speed car crash, the best-preserved dinosaur fossil on record has revealed. The fossil belonged to a nodosaur, a plant-eating dinosaur ...
More than a year after the Oct. 7 Hamas attack, most American Jews are broadly supportive of Israel but harshly critical of its leadership and prosecution of the war on Gaza, according to an ...
Experts had speculated that the key to this exceptional preservation might be related to the volcanism of the area, with some believing that eruptions occurred in waves that buried the dinosaurs ...
Paleontologists debate whether silesaurids were true dinosaurs or possibly a precursor to the creatures that once dominated the Earth. Paleontologist from the Federal University of Santa Maria ...
A famous fossil formation in the Yixian region of Northeast China has revealed some of the most striking, well-preserved dinosaur remains on record. Over the past 60 years, archaeologists ...
The creature, a newly described species named Gondwanax paraisensis, could shed light on the origin of the oldest dinosaurs, though paleontologists still have questions about its spot on the ...
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