New fossil scans reveal that a tiny wrist bone in dinosaurs may have set the stage for the evolution of bird flight.

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Scientists have uncovered a surprising piece of the puzzle in the evolution of flight: a tiny wrist bone in certain dinosaurs ...

They can climb onto other animals to drink their blood, pluck insects from leaves or hover to drink nectar from tropical flowers, all of which require distinctive wing designs.

A 12,000-Year-Old Bird Call, Made of Bird Bones A collection of small flutes carved from waterfowl bones may have been used as hunting aids, a new study suggests.

This efficiency allowed researchers to analyze wing-bone measurements from 1,520 species of passerine birds across 80 families from all continents except Antarctica. The specimens came primarily ...

Seven small wing bones uncovered at a dig site in the Hula Valley - a popular bird watching spot to this day - were identified to have tiny holes bored into the bones for finger placement and as a ...

Still, it is but fair to say that the frigate bird and turkey buzzards, creatures which are most at ease when on the wing, have extremely light and hollow bones, but comparing one bird with ...

A team of archaeologists posit a unique theory about 12,000-year-old bird bones from the Levant, which appear to have been crafted into flutes.

As Laurent Davin sorted through prehistoric bird bones, he did not expect to find musical instruments in the mix. Davin, an archeologist at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the French ...

In a “Jurassic Park”-esque fashion, “Lord of the Rings” director Peter Jackson and the Texas-based biotech company Colossal ...