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 ...

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.

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 ...

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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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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A newly described feathered dinosaur, Jian changmaensis, may help explain mysterious clusters of crushed prehistoric bird bones in China. The discovery suggests early birds shared their world with ...

Little bush moa (third from left) are related to the ostrich, rhea, and tinamou. Wing bones are greatly reduced in ostrich and rhea and completely absent in moa. Ostrich, rhea and moa also have ...