Since the 1960s, fossil discoveries have confirmed the scientific consensus that birds evolved from the group of predatory ...

NOVA's documentary called "Dino Birds" explores how birds evolved since the Age of Dinosaurs. Learn all about how paleontologists piece together the clues of avian evolution left by dinosaur fossils.

Forty million years before the first dinosaurs evolved, a ferocious predator lurked in swampy waters. Its skull alone was ...

An international study reveals surprising bird nesting activity in the Arctic during the Late Cretaceous period. Fossils from Alaska show birds were breeding there 73 million years ago. This ...

Roughly 73 million years ago, dinosaurs like tyrannosaurs and hadrosaurs lived among conifer trees in northern Alaska. The region was also home to a much smaller creature—a tiny mammal that weathered ...

Vegavis is one of only two modern birds known from the age of dinosaurs. The other one, Asteriornis maastrichtensis, lived about 67 million years ago in what is now Belgium.

One fateful day 66 million years ago, the dinosaurs — which had inhabited Earth for about 165 million years — got a nasty surprise: A roughly 9-mile-wide (15 kilometers) asteroid crashed into ...

The Pittsburgh Zoo and Aquarium will soon debut a new Ice Age exhibit. The temporary exhibit, "Ice Age: Frozen in Time," runs from Monday, April 14, through Monday, Sept. 1, 2025. The experience ...

Giant salamander-like creature was a top predator in the ice age before the dinosaurs. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2024 / 07 / 240703131724.htm ...