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 ...

Researchers from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have found a new species of sandgrouse in six to nine million-year-old rocks ...

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 ...

The 120-million-year-old fossil skeleton with feathers of the juvenile early bird Jeholornis from China, showing some microscopic fossil phytolith remains of its last meal of leaves from magnoliid ...