There's a lot of superstition surrounding birds. These 14 birds are all associated with death in one way or another.

Until recently most paleontologists would not have put pterosaurs in the same league as birds in terms of flying ability ... pterosaurs sailing over the ancient lagoon. A solitary Anganguera ...

A prehistoric giant flying squirrel once glided over ancient Appalachia but went extinct as the climate cooled. Its fossils, ...

Feb. 27, 2025 — Researchers examined dozens of bird species in museum collections looking for differences in the feathers and bodies between birds that can fly and birds that can't. They found ...

They found that when birds evolve ... Ancient Egyptian Mummified Bodies Smell 'Woody,' 'Spicy' and 'Sweet' Feb. 14, 2025 — Ancient Egyptian mummified bodies smell 'woody,' 'spicy' and 'sweet ...

The Gray Fossil Site, overseen by the Don Sundquist Center of Excellence in Paleontology at East Tennessee State University, ...

These features are especially common in this ancient bird lineage ... Because their chest muscles are used less than other flying birds, like ducks, they have more white meat for white-meat ...

A 69-million-year-old skull found in Antarctica has been identified as a relative of geese and ducks, making it the oldest known modern bird ... in Sydney says this ancient species has been ...

The researchers used X-ray imaging to look at fossilised bones from pterosaurs, a prehistoric flying reptile, and discovered details that have never been seen before. They found that the bones ...