In a wind-swept stretch of Morocco’s Middle Atlas Mountains, paleontologists digging through Jurassic-era stone have ...

A fossil discovered near Gulgong in New South Wales, Australia, has offered researchers a detailed look into themelanosomes ...

Australian scientists have discovered an ancient freshwater fish fossil with its stomach contents remarkably preserved. In a ...

Scientists recreate ancient proto-feathers in chicken embryos, revealing evolutionary resilience in feather development.

A 10-year-old girl out on a shoreline stroll on a Wales beach literally stumbled upon five prehistoric dinosaur footprints.

For a long time, we didn’t know, but now they must finally show their true colors: early mammals had dark brown fur. This ...

From two weeks onwards, feather development in the embryos partially returned to normal. The chicks with the altered pathway ...

Modern birds, along with certain snakes and fishes, have skulls whose jaws and palates are not firmly fixed in place.

Feathers are among the most complex cutaneous appendages in the animal kingdom. While their evolutionary origin has been ...

Cranial kinesis allows modern birds to eat a wider variety of foods and use their beaks as multifunctional tools.

Died 30,000 years ago, discovered 136 years ago and disrupting the field of palaeontology just this week – the surprising ...

A 30,000-year-old vulture feather represents a "two-for-the-price-of one" discovery: the fossil itself, and the first ...