Scientists suggest that bigger brains in bird ancestors led to more flexible skulls, playing a key role in their evolution.

Everything you thought you knew about dinosaur roars is wrong. Jurassic Park made them terrifying, but science tells a very different story. The real sounds of the past might surprise you—quiet, eerie ...

Dinosaurs Once Had Furs and Feather Covering Their Body, Study Finds Evidence of Bird-Like Features We have learned about ...

Steve Irwin was famous for wrestling crocodiles. But the animal he was afraid of is something you might not expect.

Scientists discovered two Jurassic bird fossils in China, pushing back bird diversification by 20 million years. One, ...

Thus, volunteers, such as Melissa Lowery who identified three of the fossils, play a crucial role in these discoveries. To go further: What is a theropod? Theropods are a highly diverse group of ...

Both dinosaurs are theropods - a group characterised by hollow bones and three toes with claws on each limb - and lived during tghe Cretaceous Period, which ran from 125 to 66million years ago.

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During this time, Gondwanan began breaking up. As the continent broke apart, dinosaur evolution changed and diverged with it. In South America, for example, theropods like carcharodontosaurs dominated ...

The researchers performed geometric morphometric and phylogenetic analyses to explore its relationship with other non-avialan and avialan theropods. Interestingly, the results supported the ...