Everyone knows what a bird is, and most people are familiar with dinosaurs. However, not many realize that birds evolved from ...

We have found, however, that this incredible diversity is underpinned by a hidden mathematical rule that governs the growth ...

Modern birds, the distant relatives of those ancient giants, carry within their DNA the story of that cataclysmic event.

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 ...

Research reveals a hidden mathematical rule, known as the 'power cascade', that governs the growth and shape of beaks in ...

In 1993, Jurassic Park showed us what dinosaurs might have looked like on a movie screen. Now Jurassic World is in cinemas, so we went to see it with Michael Pittman, who saw Jurassic Park as a ...

In the past 15 years, thousands of exquisitely preserved fossil birds have emerged from the ancient lakebed, called the Yixian Formation. The region has also yielded stunning dinosaur specimens ...

“Dinosaurs Among Us” is an exhibition that was loaned to the Ontario Street museum by the American Museum of Natural History.

Millions of years before modern birds evolved, their dinosaur ancestors were soaring through the air. Scientists are piecing together how these iconic reptiles took to the skies. Fossils reveal that ...

Ask just about any paleontologist, and he or she will tell you that life found a way and that some dinosaurs survived the mass extinction. That’s because today’s birds are the last remaining ...