Is it true that birds are related to dinosaurs? Is it true that birds are dinosaurs? How can that be? The connection between birds and dinosaurs has been noted since the 1800s, but it didn't gain ...

Scientists are celebrating the discovery of a nearly intact 12-million-year-old bird skeleton on the shores of the Chesapeake Bay. The bones belonged to a gannet. Modern-day gannets are large seabirds ...

Most bird bones are very thin, an adaptation to lighten the skeleton for the purpose of flight. So as a result their delicate bones do not fossilize well, which is why when even a single isolated ...