A fully feathered fossil of the dinosaur-like bird Archaeopteryx is ruffling scientists’ understanding of what drove early feather evolution, scientists report July 2 in Nature. Archaeopteryx was one ...

Scientists have discovered a new species of flightless bird on a remote island in the Philippines, the conservation group BirdLife International said Tuesday. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get ...

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More than 50 million years ago, a giant flightless bird that weighed several hundred pounds lived in the Arctic. Based on a single toe bone first found in the 1970s, researchers from the Chinese ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Filmmaker Peter Jackson, left, and Colossal CEO Ben Lamm hold up bones from Jackson's collection of extinct moa bones in ...

May 9 (UPI) --Evolution produced the same flightless bird species twice, with each occurrence separated by tens of thousands of years. The phenomena, called iterative evolution, helped bring the ...

A large, flightless exotic bird likened to a 'living dinosaur' and infamous for killing its 75-year-old owner in Florida this month is back on the market. The razor-clawed cassowary is one of among ...

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