A tiny prehistoric bird from the early Cretaceous has turned into one of the strangest death scenes in the fossil record, its ...

A prehistoric bird that lived and died 120 million years ago has presented forensic paleontologists with a baffling medical ...

Around 120 million years ago, a bird swallowed over 800 tiny stones and choked to death as a result. Paleontologists aren’t ...

The slaty-masked tinamou, found in Brazil, is utterly unafraid of people. That could be its undoing, ornithologists worry.

A fossil only tells part of the story. When an animal's body is preserved as a fossil, there are often pieces missing, and ...

Animals often swallow stones called gastroliths to help grind food. But none of the thousands of similar fossil birds have ever been found with swallowed stones.

A new pterosaur species was recently discovered in the vomit of a dino. But that's just the start of revelations from ...

This bird is totally crazy-looking, and it is an opera singer,” says a biologist from Colombia and an expert on Neotropical ...

For more than a hundred years, scientists believed flying reptiles called pterosaurs took to the air with birdlike brains. Old fossils seemed to show it.

“Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age” is the greatest doc I’ve seen since the BBC’s sensational “Blue Planet 2,” which first hit ...

Penguins throughout the southern seas have to worry about being picked off by seals or hunted by orcas. On land, they can ...