Until around 45,000 years ago, Australia was home to Genyornis newtoni, a fearsomely huge bird weighing roughly 230kg—almost six times as much as an emu—and standing 2 meters tall.
Paleontology & Fossils
Dec 15, 2021
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Researchers from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have discovered a 120-million-year-old partial fossil skeleton of a tiny extinct bird that fits in ...
Paleontology & Fossils
Jun 23, 2021
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Ancient chickens lived significantly longer than their modern equivalents because they were seen as sacred—not food—archaeologists have found.
Archaeology
Jun 7, 2021
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Mammals and birds today are warm-blooded, and this is often taken as the reason for their great success.
Archaeology
Oct 16, 2020
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Confuciusornis was a crow-like fossil bird that lived in the Cretaceous ~120 million years ago. It was one of the first birds to evolve a beak. Early beak evolution remains understudied. Using an imaging technique called ...
Archaeology
Sep 21, 2020
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A new species of feathered dinosaur has been discovered in China, and described by American and Chinese authors and published today in the journal, The Anatomical Record.
Archaeology
Jan 16, 2020
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Sheep and dog bones can be whittled into orthopedic pins that stabilize pigeons' fractured wings, helping the fractures to heal properly without follow-up surgery. Researchers describe the treatment, which is cheaper and ...
Veterinary medicine
Nov 20, 2019
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The predentary bone is one of the most enigmatic skeletal elements in avian evolution. Located at the tip of the lower jaw, this bone is absent in more primitive birds and in living birds; it is thought to have been lost ...
Archaeology
Nov 19, 2019
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Talk about your big bird.
Archaeology
Jun 27, 2019
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A team of scientists led by Alida Bailleul and Jingmai O'Connor from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences reported the first fossil bird ever found with ...
Archaeology
Mar 20, 2019
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