An Antarctic discovery might offer new insights into the origins of modern birds. The skull, from an ancient relative of ducks and geese known as Vegavis iaai, suggests that the key characteristics of ...

Bird skulls and brains look like those of young dinosaurs, providing clues to their unique evolution and modern success. A new study, published today in Nature Ecology and Evolution, reveals that bird ...

Archosaur skull changes (juveniles on the left, adults on the right). While there was a significant amount of change between the juvenile and adult skulls of alligators (top) and the non-avian ...

Jeholornis was a raven-sized bird that lived 120 million years ago, among the earliest examples of dinosaurs evolving into birds, in what’s now China. The fossils that have been found are finely ...

Mima and Numan Begovic have filled artspace1616 with lots of good art this month. Maybe too much. I was drawn to the gallery by “Skull,” a group show centering around a time-honored subject, curated ...