See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The discovery of a remarkably near-complete fossil skull of the ...

The bones of a 160-million-year-old dinosaur are helping scientists solve one of evolution’s biggest mysteries: how birds gained flight. Hidden within the wrist of a small, feathered dinosaur lies a ...

A 121-million-year-old fossil from China shows that extreme feather displays are not a modern bird invention. Plumadraco bankoorum had two tail feathers nearly twice its body length—likely useless for ...

A newly discovered bird fossil from China is changing what scientists thought they knew about when birds first took shape. The species, __Baminornis zhenghensis__, shows that some modern bird features ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. After the infamous asteroid impact wiped out the dinosaurs, ...

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 ...

The color palette of the birds you see out your window depend on where you live. If you’re far from the Equator, most birds tend to have drab colors, but the closer you are to the tropics, you’ll ...

Birds have been nesting in rugged Arctic environments for almost 73 million years, new research finds — more than 25 million years longer than was previously thought. A collection of more than 50 ...