Newly Discovered Late Cretaceous Birds May Have Carried Heavy Prey Like Extant Raptors Oct. 9, 2024 — Newly discovered birds from Late Cretaceous North America were hawk-sized and had powerful ...

Figure 1. Fossilized nits of chewing lice, tightly affixed to feathers of an enantiornithine bird, entombed in mid-Cretaceous amber from northern Myanmar. (a) Isolated barbs and regularly arranged ...

I’d seen crests like that in Late Cretaceous birds, but not in the Early Cretaceous like this one. That’s when I first suspected it might be a new species.” Clark, O’Connor and their ...

Comparison of skull morphology of dinosaurs, Yuanchuavis, and modern birds, demonstrating that key components of the two chains of skull bones critical for cranial kinesis are lacking in ...

But that wasn't always the case; many early fossil birds had beaks full of sharp, tiny teeth. In a paper in the journal Cretaceous Research, scientists have described a new species of fossil bird ...

pterosaurs and hairy-feathered birds filled the skies. But as the continents spread, the ocean currents churned with ever more vigor. After a temperature spike in the mid-Cretaceous, the climate ...

The bird, Pterygornis dapingfangensi, lived in north-eastern China during the Early Cretaceous. It is only the second of its kind to be discovered and is exquisitely preserved. The find ''pushed ...

capitalized on the ecological niches left vacant to turn into the modern birds we know today. Around 66 million years ago, a catastrophic event known as the Cretaceous–Palaeogene (K–Pg ...

Explore the age of the dinosaurs. Discover what the prehistoric world was like and how it changed between when dinosaurs first appeared and the mass extinction at the end of the Cretaceous Period. Non ...

Comparing samples from more than 50 vertebrate species, some modern and some extinct, researchers found evidence that endothermy, or warm-bloodedness, was already widespread before the mass extinction ...

The Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg ... reptiles and avian theropod dinosaurs (the ancestors of modern birds) can… Receive a weekly dose of discovery in your inbox! We'll also keep you up to date ...