Most bird bones are very thin, an adaptation to lighten the skeleton for the purpose of flight. So as a result their delicate bones do not fossilize well, which is why when even a single isolated ...

Scientists are celebrating the discovery of a nearly intact 12-million-year-old bird skeleton on the shores of the Chesapeake Bay. The bones belonged to a gannet. Modern-day gannets are large seabirds ...

A 120 million-year-old bird fossil from China has some rather unusual dinosaur-like features in its otherwise standard avian skeleton, including a weirdly T. rex-like skull. When you purchase through ...

An 80-million-year-old fossil bird has been discovered with a skull so exquisitely preserved that scientists have been able to study the detailed structure of its brain. The fossil, which bears a ...

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