A few fossilized body parts hinted at an enigmatic bird's close ties to waterfowl like ducks and geese. A newfound skull may bolster that idea.

In the icy wilderness of Antarctica, where glaciers now dominate the landscape, scientists have unearthed a fossil that ...

A forgotten fossil in a German museum turned out to be a rare Diatryma skull. Scientists corrected a decades-old ...

“While ‘bird brain’ is often used as an insult, the brains of birds are so large that they are practically a braincase with a ...

A recently analyzed near-complete fossil skull found in Antarctica has revealed Vegavis iaai to be the oldest known modern ...

Researchers have developed a method to study bird brains by creating digital endocasts from empty cranial spaces in bird ...

The skull of Navaornis is nearly intact ... which lets us fully appreciate the anatomy of this early bird," Navalón said. Before this discovery, almost nothing was known about the evolutionary ...

and the Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum in Frankfurt report on the bird's fully preserved skull in the journal Palaeontologia Electronica. The fossil was unearthed in the ...

An international team of researchers report on the bird's fully preserved skull. The fossil was unearthed in the 1950s in a former lignite mining area in the Geiseltal in Germany. It was initially ...