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

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.

"In some ways, the beak functions like a surrogate hand ... Animation of a theropod dinosaur skull, showing muscle forces. Credit: Alec Wilken, Casey Holiday When the team analyzed data from ...

But ornithologists never doubted that Vegavis iaai was some sort of dinosaur ... it to bite underwater. Its skull, though, lacked the bony spurs at the base of the beak common to most modern ...

Illustration depicting Falcatakely amidst dinosaurs and other creatures during ... words alluding to its small stature and scythe-shaped beak, is known from this single nearly complete skull found in ...

A recent study found a nearly complete skull ... time of dinosaurs like the T. rex. Researchers believe Vegavis iaai is the oldest known modern bird. Its brain structure and long beak resemble ...

KOBE—Fossils found in Hyogo Prefecture are of a new genus and species of primitive ceratopsian, a plant-eating beaked dinosaur from about 110 million years ago, researchers said. The research ...

Triceratops’ enormous head might have been all it took to send other dinosaurs running—some recovered skulls measure up to 10 feet long. Its head was ornamented with three horns, a short one ...

"In some ways, the beak functions like a surrogate ... they saw that as brain and skull sizes increased in non-avian theropod dinosaurs, muscles shifted into different positions that allowed ...