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

Feathers are among the most complex cutaneous appendages in the animal kingdom. While their evolutionary origin has been ...

D modeling reveals that as bird brains grew larger, it led to changes in jaw muscles and joint mechanics—enabling the ...

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

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

The embryo was found in a "tucking" position—its head bent forward, feet positioned on either side, and back curved ...

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