New research shows how physical changes in the skull affected the mechanics of the way birds move and use their beaks to eat and explore their habitats -- adaptations that helped them evolve into the ...

Illinois’ commercial fossil trade is alive and well thanks to collectors who are motivated by money, science and the hunt — and who test the outer bounds of legality.

The Age of Dinosaurs is now open at the Virginia Museum of Natural History allowing visitors to be immersed into dinosaur life in the Mesozonic era. The Age of Dinosaurs is an original special ...

Extinction troubled us long before we had a name for it. The original mascot for the loss of species, even before the concept was understood, was the dodo. The bird — fat and flightless, found by 17th ...

Rex’s tiny arms to the long neck of the Apatosaurus, dinosaurs are fascinating to many. Wannabe dino hunters can go dinosaur ...

The short answer is no. it can change your personality. Face transplants are not what this person thinks. Face transplants ...

Like the flickering special effects in the 1960 version of H.G. Wells' "The Time Machine," past ages unspool around us — if ...

Tiny lab mice just got a mammoth-sized upgrade — genetic tweaks have given them thick, woolly fur, bringing science one step closer to reviving traits of extinct species.

Near the end of the age of dinosaurs, a bird resembling today’s loons and grebes dove for ... Antarctica at the time was not the desolate land of snow and ice that it is today, but rather a forested ...

providing insight into the early evolution of modern birds and avian diversity at the end of the Age of Dinosaurs. The skull belongs to Vegavis iaai, an extinct duck-like bird that lived during the ...