A Connecticut paleontologist has identified the earth’s largest-ever flying bird. The Pelagornis sandersi, which lived 25 to 28 million years ago, boasted a wingspan of 20 to 24 feet – twice ...

The world's largest bird — a newly identified species of elephant bird — weighed as much as a dinosaur when it strutted around Madagascar more than 1,000 years ago, a new study finds.

Fearsome creature that roamed prehistoric Patagonia was 10 feet tall with a skull larger than a horse's. Argentine fossil points to largest bird ever found - Los Angeles Times ...

The new specimen, described today in the journal PeerJ, is dated to 75 million years ago.It includes parts of the bird’s legs, wings, shoulders, wishbone, tail, and spine, adding up to about 30 ...

As dinosaurs evolved toward birds, he said, they got smaller and smaller, their fossils show. Until now, bird-like dinosaurs were at most 10 or 11 feet long -- certainly not 26 feet, he said ...

A remarkable new fossil of the largest "four-winged" flying dinosaur with dramatic long feathers reveals a design more like a plane than a bird, a team of scientists says.

It had some of the proportionally largest pupils ever measured in either birds or dinosaurs. “For many decades, dinosaurs were considered to be day-active,” study co-author Lars Schmitz, a ...

MORE: One of the world's biggest-ever new dinosaur species found There were probably multiple factors that helped the ancestors of modern birds survive, noted Torres.