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 ...

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 ...

By analyzing the structure of bird skulls using advanced digital technology, researchers at Flinders University in South Australia and the University of Lethbridge in Canada have developed a new way ...

Jan. 2, 2025 — Birds are the undisputed champions of epic travel -- but they are not the only long-haul fliers. A handful of bats are known to travel thousands of kilometers in continental ...

It's difficult to know what birds "think" when they fly, but scientists in Australia and Canada are getting some remarkable new insights by looking inside birds' heads. Evolutionary biologists at ...

They achieve this by creating digital ‘endocasts’—3D models of the space inside a bird’s skull where the brain once resided. Published in Biology Letters, the study—led by the ‘Bones and Diversity Lab ...

AUSTINTOWN — When Stephanie Hughes was 8 years old, she found the skull of a seagull near her ... He said he has been president for a year. “I love birds. My life since COVID has been birding.

Their study, published in the journal, Biology Letters, found that museum skulls of long-dead birds can provide surprisingly detailed information on a species’ brain, including the size of the ...

This fossilized skull belonged to now-extinct Diatryma, a flightless bird that reached heights of 4.6 feet (1.40 meters).

This bird’s legacy remained shrouded in mystery for decades, but a recent discovery by an international team of researchers has brought it back into the spotlight. Led by scientists from the Martin ...