An 80-million-year-old fossil bird from the Mesozoic era was uncovered in Brazil by a team of researchers from the University of Cambridge and the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. The ...

Piecing together the crushed skull of a fossil bird that lived alongside the dinosaurs helped researchers extrapolate what its brain would have looked like: big olfactory bulbs would have meant that ...

From the size and shape of the beak, researchers have always known that the massive South American “terror bird” was a predator. Now they know precisely how the ...

LOS ANGELES – A curious teenager in Argentina has discovered the fossilized skull of the biggest bird ever found – a swift, flightless predator 10 feet tall that pursued its prey across the steppes of ...

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, ...

From emus to woodpeckers, modern birds show remarkable diversity in skull shape and size, often hypothesized to be the result of a sudden hastening of evolution following the mass extinction that ...

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 ...