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

Modern birds are the living relatives of dinosaurs. Take a look at the features of flightless birds like chickens and ...

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Modern birds, along with certain snakes and fishes, have skulls whose jaws and palates are not firmly fixed in place.

If we struggle to work out what the whole animal looked like most of the time, how can we begin to piece together their lives and how they behaved?

It's too easy to think the dinosaur lived on the species the bones belonged to. Bones tend to survive the fossilization process, but the animal might have mostly eaten muscle and organs ...

Dinosaurs also had two holes behind the eye socket. Large, strong jaw muscles went through the holes to attach directly to the top of the skull. As a result, the jaws were able to open wide and clamp ...

Scientists suggest that bigger brains in bird ancestors led to more flexible skulls, playing a key role in their evolution.

Scientists have found evidence that the Dilophosaurus' skull served as scaffolding for powerful jaw muscles, shattering the image of the dinosaur as more fragile and svelte that has been promoted ...

The most common way an animal such as a dinosaur fossilises is called petrification. These are the key steps: 1. The animal dies. 2. Soft parts of the animal's body, including skin and muscles, start ...