Everyone knows what a bird is – and pretty much everyone knows what a dinosaur is. But not everyone is aware that birds evolved from dinosaurs approximately 160 million years ago. In fact, birds and ...

Modern birds evolved earlier than previously assumed — much earlier than the dinosaurs’ mass extinction — an event that seems to have had a limited impact on avian evolution Artist’s depiction of the ...

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, ...

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 ...

New fossil discoveries in China are changing what is known about bird evolution. Two bird fossils, dating back nearly 149 million years, were unearthed in Fujian Province. These fossils provide the ...

Birds are a barometer of the health of water sources, habitats, and air quality. A notable example is the use of canaries in ...

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All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Angry Birds Evolution Something is causing the the pigs to herd to Bird Island in droves, and the birds have found their eggs in danger once again. It’s up ...

"The Chinese poultry lineage may have experienced more vaccine-driven selection compared to other lineages," the researchers ...