JUAN CARLOS LEAL and José Bonaparte were lost in a thick, thorny acacia forest in north-west Argentina when Leal stumbled on the bones. The big ones turned out to be from a new long-necked dinosaur ...

Using ancient DNA extracted from the toe bone of a museum specimen, biologists have sequenced the genome of an extinct, flightless bird called the little bush moa, shedding light into an unknown ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. yellow arrow pointing at a fossil A prehistoric bird that lived and died 120 million years ago has presented forensic ...

Declared extinct in 1898, the takahē is back in New Zealand's wild alpine valleys — and the bizarre sock puppet trick that saved it will genuinely surprise you.

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Around 120 million years ago, a bird swallowed over 800 tiny stones and choked to death as a result. Paleontologists aren’t sure why. Like many recent fossil “discoveries,” researchers with the Field ...

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, ...

In a recent study, Dr. Katelyn Bishop conducted a zooarchaeological and archival data reanalysis of macaws and parrots recovered from Chaco Canyon to better understand their depositional contexts, ...

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Newly discovered bone fragments from Alaska suggest birds have been breeding and nesting in the Arctic for at least 73 million years. “Which is kind of crazy, because it’s not easy to live in the ...

It's not what they intended to do or expected to find. They're not even all that interested in birds. When Andre Naranjo and his colleagues began work on a new study published in the Botanical Journal ...