That combination of beak, teeth, flight and jaws make it a crucial link in bird evolution, but its skull has been difficult to study because the only fossils available were "some crushed brain ...

"Longipteryx is one of my favorite fossil birds, because it's just so weird— it has this long skull, and teeth only at the ...

One such evolutionary puzzle is the reason that birds have beaks instead of teeth. Modern birds evolved from theropod dinosaurs, which include some of those ferociously carnivorous beasts with ...

"Longipteryx is one of my favorite fossil birds, because it's just so weird—it has this long skull, and teeth only at the tip of its beak," study lead author Jingmai O'Connor, associate curator ...

Whenever I spot a grebe, I try to imagine the bird with teeth. This is another symptom of a chronically fossiliferous mind. You see, these snake-necked swimming birds have traditionally been taken ...

“Longipteryx is one of my favorite fossil birds, because it’s just so weird—it has this long skull, and teeth only at the tip of its beak,” Jingmai O’Connor, a study co-author and the ...

As the modern descendants of dinosaurs, birds must have once had teeth. We’ve known this since 1861, when paleontologists uncovered Archeopteryx, a 150-million-year-old bird fossil with teeth.

The study provides a connecting point between pre-bird creatures with teeth and the modern beaked bird, completely toothless. The animal that was subject to this study probably looked something ...

For over 86 million years prior to that moment, birds with teeth thrived among the forests, floodplains and oceans of the Mesozoic world. Their story is seldom told, overshadowed both by the ...

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Birds don't have teeth, and believe it or not, we're still not entirely sure why. A new study, however, has an impressive theory on what happened to our winged friends, and suggests how going ...