Some social media posts said the bones were discovered in North America, while others suggested a North African locale.

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

Scientists have unearthed in southeastern China the fossil of a quail-sized bird that lived about 150 million years ago ...

"Few birds are as likely to start as many arguments among paleontologists as 'vegavis,'" said professor Christopher Torres.

The extremely tight match between the 'real' and the 'digital' brain volumes surprised the researchers. "We used computed microtomography to scan the bird skulls. This allows us to digitally fill ...

A mostly headless skeleton of a loon-size diving bird emerged from rocks that, at 68 million years old, predated the dinosaur extinction. The species, which scientists named Vegavis iaai ...

Sir David Attenborough befriends a lifelike diplodocus as its towering skeleton replica comes to life. During this encounter, surprising truths are revealed about this extinct dinosaur.

“Bird brain” is often hurled at someone as ... birds by making digital “endocasts” from the area inside a bird skeleton’s empty cranial space. Their study, published in the journal ...

The extremely tight match between the 'real' and the 'digital' brain ... The closest living relatives of birds, crocodillian skeletons photographed at the Gallery of Paleontology and Comparative ...

The captions of these posts claimed the images showed a 15,000-year-old mammoth skeleton in North Africa. (Facebook user DiggingInto Archaeology) In short, none of the four images included in these ...