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With a death-stare that could stop you cold and a beak built like a dinosaur’s, shoebills are straight-up metal. In this video, we dive into what makes this bird so hardcore – from their silent ...
Imagine encountering a creature from the past—a bird standing 5 feet tall with long, slender legs, a duck-like head, and a ...
The Free Beer and Hot Wings Show talks dire wolves, dodo birds, and other extinct animals we wish were still around.
Ancient fossils from Alaska reveal birds nested in the Arctic 73 million years ago, challenging previous assumptions about avian evolution.
Evan McClimans, a local artist, cut, sanded and welded debris found on Galveston’s 32 miles of beach to create a sculpture of ...
As part of a wider exhibition, West Suffolk Council's Moyse's Hall Museum in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, said it was now the first to display an accurate replica of the dinosaur's skeleton.
As a result, by 100 million years ago, the forests of Victoria included an open conifer-dominated forest canopy. The subcanopy beneath was made up of seed ferns and ferns. Flowering plants and ferns ...
A Chicago fossil of Archaeopteryx uncovers unknown features, supporting theories of bird evolution from dinosaurs and highlighting its unique flight adaptations.
Dinosaurs got their beaks more than once. Most dinosaurs, like Tyrannosaurus rex, have a robust snout with pointed teeth.But some dinosaurs (like the emu-like dinosaur Ornithomimus edmontonicus ...
Now that we know that most bird and dinosaur beaks follow the power cascade, the next big step in our research is to study how bird beaks grow from chick to adult.
But some dinosaurs (like the emu-like dinosaur Ornithomimus edmontonicus) did not have any teeth at all and instead had beaks. In theropods, the group of dinosaurs that T. rex belonged to, beaks ...