Dinosaurs and Birds

How (and when) did dinosaurs evolve into birds? What were the first feathered dinosaurs? And how did paleontologists manage to piece together the dinosaur/bird puzzle? Find out everything you need to know about dinosaurs and their relationship to birds in this collection.

Dodo Birds at a river.

10 Birds That Were Hunted to Extinction

10 Facts About the Great Auk

Facts About Oviraptor, the Egg Thief Dinosaur

The Chinese feathered dinosaur Mei long

Why Did Dinosaurs Have Feathers?

Diatryma steini

Gastornis (Diatryma)

Aepyornis, the elephant bird

10 Facts About Giant Elephant Birds That Lived on Madagascar

Ostrich (Struthio camelus) walking in Palmwag Conservancy, Damaraland, Namibia

10 Facts About Ornithomimus

A male Phorusrhacos bird of prey watches over a colony of nesting females during the Miocene Era.

Terror Bird (Phorusrhacos)

Gallimimus dinosaur.

Ornithomimids - The Bird Mimic Dinosaurs

archaeopteryx

Was Archaeopteryx a Bird or a Dinosaur?

adzebill

Prehistoric Bird Pictures and Profiles

jeholornis

Why Aren't Birds Dinosaur-Sized?

Archaeopteryx Lithographica

10 Facts About Archaeopteryx, the Famous 'Dino-Bird'

passenger pigeon

10 Facts About the Passenger Pigeon

argentavis

albertonykus

Feathered Dinosaur Pictures and Profiles

Titanis walleri, a flightless carnivorous bird from the Pleistocene epoch

Titanis Facts and Figures

An artist's rendition of a Haast's eagle attacking moa.

Haast's Eagle (Harpagornis)

A Moa-Nalo skull fragment in Oahu

Moa-Nalo Characteristics and History

genyornis

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