Researchers at Rice University have uncovered new insights into the evolution of bird behavior, revealing why certain mating ...

Finally, birds and mammals belong to a richly branching part of the vertebrate phylogenetic tree, most of the branches ... given to outstanding novelties in evolution which have originated ...

For centuries, scientists have been piecing together the evolutionary puzzle of birds, the sole survivors of the dinosaur ...

Birds that typically stay in Michigan over the winter can handle even these temperatures. But other birds may struggle to ...

The gradual evolutionary change – from fast-running, ground-dwelling, bipedal theropods to small, winged, flying birds – probably started about 160 million years ago. It was possibly due to a move by ...

Deep Tree: Students explore an interactive tree ... specific examples of evolution case studies, such as the evolution of birds, whales, and humans. Students will be able to cite applications ...

That’s because today’s birds are the last remaining twig on an otherwise demolished dinosaur family tree, grown from fierce predators and sculpted by evolution into an array of flapping ...

One of Charles Darwin's famous 14 finches — the island-dwelling bird species that helped inspire the theory of evolution — the medium tree finch is found only on Floreana, one of the nine major ...

In the aftermath, birds evolved rapidly ... controversies and uncover new insights into the evolutionary history of birds. The phylogenetic tree (a branching diagram that represents the ...

You can map all of those things out and that can tell you the narrative of how evolution took a dinosaur and turned it into a bird.” “We can also calibrate that tree to time,” explains the ...