A tiny, overlooked wrist bone called the pisiform may have played a pivotal role in bird flight and it turns out it evolved ...

A 13-million-year-old leg bone from an enormous flightless bird carries crocodilian tooth marks, showing South America was ...

A pivotal wrist bone in birds appears earlier in theropods. This could shift views on how flight evolved. An analysis of two ...

Birds are dinosaurs, and this fossil detective has rooms full of bones to prove it Paleontologist Jingmai O’Connor looks back millions of years to find hidden bridges in evolutionary history. By ...

A 12,000-Year-Old Bird Call, Made of Bird Bones A collection of small flutes carved from waterfowl bones may have been used as hunting aids, a new study suggests.

Researcher Laurent Davin plays a replica of one of the 12,000-year-old bird bone flutes recently discovered in northern Israel. Davin et al., 2023 Scientists in Israel have discovered seven 12,000 ...

Business. Dallas’ Colossal Biosciences pairs with Lord of the Rings director to resurrect giant bird Peter Jackson has a large collection of bones from the extinct New Zealand bird.

Archaeologists have unearthed a collection of 12,000-year-old flutes carved out of bird bones at a prehistoric site in Israel. When played, the artifacts mimic the calls of certain birds of prey.