Strange dinosaur species found with hundreds of stones in its throat named after funk band - Species named after techno-funk duo Chromeo could be key to understanding how a small group of dinosaurs su ...

“There are thousands of bird fossils at the Shandong Tianyu Museum, but on my last trip to visit their collections, this one really jumped out at me,” Chicago’s Field Museum associate curator of ...

The unlucky fossil bird, preserved with over 800 tiny rocks in its throat (visible as the gray mass next to the left of its neck bones). A fossil only tells part of the story. When an animal’s body is ...

A tiny prehistoric bird from the early Cretaceous has turned into one of the strangest death scenes in the fossil record, its last moments frozen with a throat packed full of stones. The animal, ...

A newly described Patagonian fossil reveals the evolutionary origins and global spread of the tiny alvarezsaur dinosaurs.

A remarkable fossil in the National Museum of Natural History’s collection reveals that the ancestors of modern flightless birds were capable of flying long distances Jack Tamisiea Ostriches, emus and ...

The discovery of a rare fossil in an ancient Otago lake shows the evolutionary history of Aotearoa birds is much more dynamic than once thought.

An artist’s depiction of ancient albatrosses harassing a pelagornithid — with its fearsome toothed beak — as penguins frolic in the oceans around Antarctica 50 million years ago. UC Berkeley Twitter ...

The fossil was tiny—about the size of a modern sparrow—but it had features in common with a larger fossil bird called Longipteryx. "It had really big teeth at the end of its beak, just like ...

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