Biologists previously believed modern birds had evolved 20 million years later than the new evidence suggests.

For years, emus and rheas have been dismissed as some of the least intelligent birds on the planet. But new research suggests ...

Large birds – our closest relations to dinosaurs - are capable of technical innovation and can solve a physical task to gain ...

Look out the window long enough and you’ll see a modern-day dinosaur making use of its feathers to soar across the sky. It’s ...

Palaeognaths include emus and ostriches, and can reach 9 feet tall and weigh upwards of 300 pounds. They are more known for ...

Archaeopteryx, long considered the earliest fossil bird, could be knocked off its perch by Baminornis zhenghensis, which ...

Researchers in China found Baminornis zhenghensis, which lived at roughly the same time as the famous Archaeopteryx but ...

Chinese scientists have unearthed the oldest short-tailed bird fossil, dating back about 150 million years, in east China's ...

The short-tailed find with the forelimb of a raptor is an extremely rare example of the transition from dinosaurs to birds.

A study on bird intelligence found that emus and rheas can solve puzzles to access food, proving they can innovate.

A set of fossils discovered in East China's Fujian province has been identified as the only known unambiguous record of ...