And when it comes to birds, the skull has a lot of phylogenetic or informative characteristics that tell you what it is,” study co-author Patrick O’Connor, an evolutionary biologist at Ohio ...

The broken-wing display, in which birds fake being wounded to protect their nests from predators, is found across the avian phylogenetic tree, a study finds. Now that it had an audience, the killdeer ...

Rex, studied by scientists and having survived nearly 68 million years, have provided new insights into this animal. This offers scientists an unprecedented chance to analyze the tissues of extinct ...