Palaeontologist Steve Brusatte's The Story of Birds offers an excellent and sometimes startling account of bird evolution, ...
Over ~100 million years of evolutionary diversification, but mainly the explosive phyletic radiation following the K–Pg extinction event 1, resulted in about 11,000 living bird species (Neornithes) ...
"Their genetic distinctiveness is so high, that it is likely they are on their way to becoming new species." ...
Remote Scottish islands turned tiny wrens into giant birds that may be evolving into new species. Tiny wrens living on remote Scottish islands are providing scientists with a rare look at how ...
A pigeon pecking at crumbs in a city square rarely attracts much attention. It is easy to see it as an ordinary bird, part of ...
Form—function relationships are one of the pillars of biodiversity. Morphological features have diverged in size and shape among lineages and impart different abilities to interact with the ...
All Nanantius eos fossils have been found in what geologists call marine deposits, which are rocks formed under the sea. Considering that one was even found in the stomach of a dolphin-like marine ...
When most people think of wings, they immediately think of flight. After all, wings are nature’s ultimate symbol of freedom, ...
Parrots, renowned for their mimicry, not only have the ability to imitate a variety of sounds but they also possess unique voices of their own, according to a new study A wild monk parakeet ...