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

Mixodectes belonged to an extinct family known as mixodectids and lived during the Paleocene epoch. This geological epoch ...

And unlike ground-dwelling dinosaurs, birds could fly to new areas to find food and shelter, giving them a huge survival ...

Mixodectes pungens, a species of small mammal that inhabited western North America in the early Paleocene, was a mystery.

His research shows that as birds evolved, their adult skulls kept features that extinct dinosaurs had only as juveniles, paving the way for the avian beak. Photographed at the Peabody Museum of ...

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

The six-mile-wide asteroid punched a one-way ticket toward extinction for all non-avian dinosaurs. Some 66 million years ...

The Edelman Fossil Park and Museum opens March 29 unveiling a century of dinosaur discoveries and a fossil quarry to dig in.