The Chicago Archaeopteryx provides rare 3D insights into skull evolution, soft tissue structure, and the first evidence of ...

Among them was Diatryma, a towering bird ... drawing comparisons to later, more aggressive flightless birds. However, modern studies, including those conducted on the newly rediscovered skull ...

Fossil bird's skull reconstruction reveals a brain made for smelling and eyes made for daylight Date: October 24, 2022 Source: Field Museum Summary: Piecing together the crushed skull of a fossil ...

That’s Genyornis newtoni, an Ice Age "thunder bird" from Australia, for which scientists have now found the first complete skull. Indigenous Australians lived alongside some incredible megafauna ...

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 ...

An international team of researchers report on the bird's fully preserved skull. The fossil was unearthed in the 1950s in a former lignite mining area in the Geiseltal in Germany. It was initially ...

"The parallels in the skull to that in parrots, the descendants of dinosaurs most famous for their nut-cracking habits, is remarkable," said Paul Sereno, a paleontologist at the University of Chicago.

“This study is the first time we're really getting at what this bird’s skull looked like, what its brain must have been like, which is really exciting.” The study’s first author, Han ...