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 ...

One day in the Middle Miocene, some 11 million to 16 million years ago, a roughly 4.8-metre-long caiman ate a terror bird 1.

An international team of researchers led by Dr. Corina Logan at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in ...

An international research team from the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin and from Buenos Aires and Washington D.C. has identified ...

The terror bird. It’s a name that strikes fear, and with good reason. These “super predators” from the Phorusrhacidae were a ...

The giant skeletal remains of a rare bird stored at Leeds Museum have been given a clean bill of health by curators. The skeleton of the heavy-footed moa, an enormous flightless bird which once roamed ...