For years, a fossil bed in the Changma Basin of northwestern China puzzled the paleontologists who worked it. Scattered among ...

UK police officers were left red-faced after responding to reports of human bones -- only to find out it was actually a fake pirate skeleton. Jam Press It was a humerus mistake. After responding to ...

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 150-million-year-old bird fossil, Zhengheornis, reveals the first step in the evolution of the short tails seen in modern ...

A plump guinea fowl walks across a bird-sized treadmill. X-rays record the precise movement of the bird's bones, tracking its hips as they interact with its legs. A computerized model of the bones is ...

Fossilized fragments of a skeleton, hidden within a rock the size of a grapefruit, have helped upend one of the longest-standing assumptions about the origins of modern birds. Fossilised fragments of ...

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 ...