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

DNA analysis reveals the big, flightless moa birds ate — and pooped out — 13 kinds of fungi, including ones crucial for New Zealand’s forest ecosystem.

including several type specimens and the original fragment of long bone that allowed Richard Owen to deduce the existence of these large extinct flightless birds. The bone was discovered between 1831 ...

Instead of studying extinct animals by analyzing the shape of their skeletons ... “We’re trying to create something that’s ...

The large bird of prey largely feeds on carrion and worms and cuts a distinctive silhouette with wing tips that look like ...

The new skull exhibits a long, pointed beak and a brain shape unique among all known birds previously discovered from the Mesozoic Era.

Biologists have identified common features in species that have vanished since 1500, finding that large body size and specialised niches made birds vulnerable to extinction.

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 ...