Pinpointing when birds diverged completely from dinosaurs has long remained a paleontological mystery.

The extremely well-preserved ammonite - believed to be between 100 to 105 million years-old - has been discovered on the Isle ...

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

The Alberta state park has produced some of the most important dinosaur fossil discoveries ever made ... This specimen being a juvenile makes it even more rare,” the paper’s lead author ...

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

Contenders for the true first birds have now been found in Chinese rocks dating from the late Jurassic, around 149 million years ago. If accepted as birds, as the scientists who described them think ...

A bite hole in a rare neck bone fossil discovered in Canada suggests a crocodile-like predator chomped on the flying reptile, either in a deadly attack or a post-mortem scavenged snack.

The fossils recovered from the Steinhatchee River site offer a rare look into how this process of speciation took place, with ankle and foot bones that match the size of the larger H ...

BEIJING -- An international research team has revealed the snow leopard's unique evolutionary path by studying rare snow leopard fossils discovered across the Eurasian continent. The study ...