Most bird bones are very thin, an adaptation to lighten the skeleton for the purpose of flight. So as a result their delicate bones do not fossilize well, which is why when even a single isolated ...

Scientists are celebrating the discovery of a nearly intact 12-million-year-old bird skeleton on the shores of the Chesapeake Bay. The bones belonged to a gannet. Modern-day gannets are large seabirds ...

An 80-million-year-old fossil bird has been discovered with a skull so exquisitely preserved that scientists have been able to study the detailed structure of its brain. The fossil, which bears a ...

A new type of analysis of a spectacular 120-million-year-old fossil skeleton of the extinct early bird Jeholornis from northeastern China has revealed the oldest evidence for birds eating leaves, ...