For more than a century, scientists have been unsuccessfully hunting for skull fossils for the thunder bird species Genyornis newtoni. About 50,000 years ago, these titans, also known as mihirungs, ...

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A 69-million-year-old fossilized skull unearthed in Antarctica could rewrite the history of modern birds. The nearly complete ...

(CN) — Birds didn’t just inherit their dinosaur lineage — they rewired it. That's according to researchers in a study that say as their brains grew, birds' skulls became more flexible, unlocking new ...

An artist’s interpretation of Vegavis iaai diving for fish in the shallow ocean off the coast of the Antarctic peninsula, with ammonites and plesiosaurs for company. A new study in Nature describing a ...

Paleontologists have uncovered an exceptionally complete skull of a massive bird that lived 45 million years ago. This fossilized skull belonged to now-extinct Diatryma, a flightless bird that reached ...

Around 45 million years ago, a 4.6 feet-tall (1.40 meters) flightless bird called Diatryma roamed the Geiseltal region in southern Saxony-Anhalt. An international team of researchers report on the ...

Modern birds, as well as other animals like snakes and fishes, have skulls with jaws and palates that aren't rigid and fixed in place like those in mammals, turtles, or non-avian dinosaurs. Alec ...

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(CNN) — A near complete skull fossil found in Antarctica has revealed the oldest known modern bird — a mallard duck-size creature related to the waterfowl that live by lakes and oceans today, a new ...

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