About 130 million years ago, when pterosaurs still dominated the skies, the bird whose fossil remains are pictured here waded along a lakeshore in northeast China. To paleontologists this ten-inch ...

Our bird skeleton collection, also called the avian osteology collection, is the largest of its kind in the UK. It contains around 16,600 specimens, including complete and partial skeletons and skulls ...

Birds are found worldwide and in all habitats. The largest is the nine-foot-tall ostrich. The smallest is the two-inch-long bee hummingbird. Everything about the anatomy of a bird reflects its ...

The Chicago Archaeopteryx features more soft tissue and delicate skeletal details than any known fossil of its kind, and ...

Inspired by the hollow skeletal structure of bird bones, which optimizes oxygen storage and respiratory efficiency, ...

Why was that so important? There is only one near-complete dodo skeleton that exists, consisting of bones from just one bird, and it has remained unstudied until the twenty-first century. It is ...

Archaeopteryx, often hailed as the first birds, lived during the Jurassic Period, roughly 150 million years ago. Over 160 ...

A "beautifully preserved" Chicago Archaeopteryx specimen has hinted towards details that helped birds flying. The latest ...

Key to the first bird’s flight was likely a set of never-before-seen feathers, called tertials, found on the upper arm of the ...