“Bird skulls are at a real premium among paleontologists, as they don’t get preserved in most circumstances,” says study leader Daniel Field of the University of Bath in the U.K.

A 120 million-year-old bird fossil from China has some rather unusual dinosaur-like features in its otherwise standard avian skeleton, including a weirdly T. rex-like skull.

Paleontologists have uncovered an exceptionally complete skull of a massive bird that lived 45 million years ago. This ...

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Named Cratonavis zhui, this strange creature appears to lie between the reptilian, long-tailed Archaeopteryx and a present-day bird clade, Ornithothoraces, on its family tree.

A fossil skull from a toothy early relative of today's birds shows a weirdly modern skull configuration, raising new questions about the early evolution of birds.

The skull of a previously unknown species of bird-like dinosaur has been discovered trapped in a chunk of 99-million-year-old amber. CNN values your feedback 1.

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2006-10-26 04:00:00 PDT Los Angeles-- A curious teenager in Argentina has discovered the fossil skull of the biggest bird ever found -- a swift, flightless predator 10 feet tall that pursued its ...

Bird skull evolution slowed after the extinction of the dinosaurs. ScienceDaily. Retrieved May 7, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2020 / 08 / 200818142141.htm. PLOS.