While the discovery is a significant breakthrough, the researchers say it is only the first step in understanding the evolution of bird intelligence. Future studies may reveal how Navaornis ...

Feathers are highly complex natural structures and they're key to the success of birds. But they initially evolved in dinosaurs, birds' extinct ancestors. Leading the study, Professor Cheng-Ming ...

Despite the increasingly clear picture of the evolution of birds from theropod dinosaurs that has emerged, a few scientists are still unconvinced. No alternative hypothesis has been offered to ...

Scientists have unveiled a new chapter in the evolutionary saga of birds, the last surviving dinosaurs ... more than 60 million years in the future. That's the cool part," Braun explained.

A groundbreaking discovery is shedding light on how modern birds developed their unique brains and intelligence. Researchers ...

The two species share a remarkable biological past. Our palaeontologist Professor Paul Barrett explains how this understanding of dinosaur evolution is transforming the way scientists think. Birds ...

A new exhibition that explores how birds have evolved from dinosaurs aims to "unlock the surprising secrets of avian survival". Birds: Brilliant and Bizarre has opened at London's Natural History ...