When Stephanie Hughes was 8 years old, she found the skull of a seagull near her property. From that day on, she was hooked. Hughes, an Ohio certified volunteer naturalist, presented “Skulls Tell It ...

A misidentified Diatryma skull from Germany's Geiseltal region was rediscovered, confirming the rare bird's herbivorous ...

A forgotten fossil in a German museum turned out to be a rare Diatryma skull. Scientists corrected a decades-old ...

Over the last three months, writing this mini-series has made me think about my own collecting habits. Sure, I've got a few ...

Researchers have developed a method to study bird brains by creating digital endocasts from empty cranial spaces in bird ...

Scientists use digital skull scans to reveal bird brain structures, intelligence, and evolution without actual brains.

Hola, mis amigos de la ciencia! This week, researchers reported that hominins strode bipedally across Europe 500,000 years ...

It's difficult to know what birds 'think' when they fly, but scientists in are getting some remarkable new insights by looking inside birds' heads. Evolutionary biologists and neuroscience researchers ...

A masked lapwing (Vanellus miles) and its reflection in water. Courtesy Michael Jury of Mykelphotography.It's difficult to ...

Around 45 million years ago, a 4.6-foot-tall (1.4 meters) bird called Diatryma roamed a warm, tropical swamp in what is now southern Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. This giant, flightless bird, known for its ...

Paleontologists have uncovered an exceptionally complete skull of a massive bird that lived 45 million years ago. This fossilized skull belonged to now-extinct Diatryma, a flightless bird that reached ...

Around 45 million years ago, a 4.6 feet-tall (1.40 meters) flightless bird called Diatryma roamed the Geiseltal region in southern Saxony-Anhalt. An international team of researchers report on the ...