150-million-year-old Archaeopteryx fossil sheds light on bird evolution from dinosaurs

An ancient archaeopteryx fossil is offering new insight into the early evolution of birds from dinosaurs. Dating back around ...

There’s a reason we don’t have birds the size of elephants: the mysterious story of how dinosaurs evolved – expert Q&A

Exactly how did birds evolve from dinosaurs? It’s a mystery that has been with us for more than 150 years, and ...
Earth.com

First 'technicolor' dinosaur fossil has four wings and forced scientists to rethink the evolution of flight

Some feathered dinosaurs like Anchiornis huxleyi may have lost the ability to fly, revealing that the evolution of flight was ...
PBS

Bird Evolution:

Few subjects in evolutionary theory have posed such intriguing puzzles for so long as the origin of birds. Evidence of avian beginnings has been elusive in the fossil record because birds' light, ...
Brooklyn Daily Eagle

Brooklyn Bird Watch: The extraordinary evolution of the woodpecker species

The woodpecker is a unique bird species that has gone through some mysteriously acquired adaptations since the extinction of the dinosaurs. Fossils tell us, without any explanations of course (because ...

The story of birds: a new history from their dinosaur origins – extract of Steve Brusatte’s new book

In front of us was a dinosaur skeleton the size of a large dog. It was obviously a dinosaur, as it had the reinforced pelvis, ...
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Footprints rewrite the evolution of flight: Tracks suggest birds are 60m years older than thought

A new AI app is helping to rewrite the evolution of flight. The app, developed by researchers from the University of Edinburgh, has been used to analyse footprints made by dinosaurs more than 200 ...