Modern birds are the living relatives of dinosaurs. Take a look at the features of flightless birds like chickens and ...

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

Muscles have some wacky names! We caught Alyssa in her own trap though… she may know a lot about muscles but she doesn't know much at all about dinosaurs… Join this channel to get access to ...

If we struggle to work out what the whole animal looked like most of the time, how can we begin to piece together their lives and how they behaved?

It's too easy to think the dinosaur lived on the species the bones belonged to. Bones tend to survive the fossilization process, but the animal might have mostly eaten muscle and organs ...

Rough patches and flanges on bone can be used to reconstruct the positions of muscles, cartilage and ligaments. Studying the scratches and wear patterns on teeth reveals vital information on diet and ...

Scientists have found evidence that the Dilophosaurus' skull served as scaffolding for powerful jaw muscles, shattering the image of the dinosaur as more fragile and svelte that has been promoted ...

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

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

they saw that as brain and skull sizes increased in non-avian theropod dinosaurs, muscles shifted into different positions that allowed the palate to separate and become mobile. These changes in ...