Modern birds, along with certain snakes and fishes, have skulls whose jaws and palates are not firmly fixed in place.

Cranial kinesis allows modern birds to eat a wider variety of foods and use their beaks as multifunctional tools.

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A team of paleontologists from the Natural History Museum in the U.K., the University of Birmingham, also in the U.K., and ...

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Researchers emphasize that this fossil confirms that cerapodan dinosaurs underwent diversification well before the Cretaceous ...

their dinosaur ancestors were soaring through the air. Scientists are piecing together how these iconic reptiles took to the skies. Fossils reveal that bird-like dinosaurs were flying around more than ...

Scientists suggest that bigger brains in bird ancestors led to more flexible skulls, playing a key role in their evolution.

Scientists now believe that feathers didn’t just appear suddenly in birds. Instead, they evolved step by step from much ...

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Palaeognaths include emus and ostriches, and can reach 9 feet tall and weigh upwards of 300 pounds. They are more known for their brawn than their brains and often rely on their running speed and ...