In fact, birds and dinosaurs lived together for about 100 million years. Birds descended from a particular group of dinosaurs called the dromaeosaurs, or “running lizards,” which were a family ...
The two species share a remarkable biological past. Our palaeontologist Professor Paul Barrett explains how this understanding of dinosaur evolution is transforming the way scientists think. Birds ...
The closest living relative of birds are crocodiles, and ~235 million years ago in the middle of the Triassic Period, their common ancestors were the Archosaurs, from which emerged the most famous ...
A new exhibition that explores how birds have evolved from dinosaurs aims to "unlock the surprising secrets of avian survival". Birds: Brilliant and Bizarre has opened at London's Natural History ...
The story of the disappearance of dinosaurs is a famous one. Less familiar is the tale of the dinosaurs that were left behind. What is it about birds that allowed them to survive when all other ...
These “little skeletons of raptor dinosaurs, sheathed in feathers, wings coming out of their arms” were the “final clue that said yes, absolutely, birds really did evolve from dinosaurs ...
Like Archaeopteryx, many of these animals are surreal mash-ups between the standard notion of a modern bird and classic images of a predatory dinosaur. Ostriches descend from a group of birds that ...