A forgotten fossil in a German museum turned out to be a rare Diatryma skull. Scientists corrected a decades-old misidentification.
Since then, modern birds have lost their teeth and powerful jaw muscles and developed lightweight beaks and kinetic skulls. They retained their diapsid skulls (a hallmark of their early reptile ...
Researchers have developed a method to study bird brains by creating digital endocasts from empty cranial spaces in bird ...
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45-million-year-old giant bird skull misidentified for decades, finally recognizedPaleontologists 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 ...
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 ...
Around 45 million years ago, a 4.6 foot-tall (1.40 meters) flightless bird called Diatryma roamed the Geiseltal region in ...
Around 45 million years ago, a 4.6 feet-tall (1.40 metres) flightless bird called Diatryma roamed the Geiseltal region in ...
Scientists use digital skull scans to reveal bird brain structures, intelligence, and evolution without actual brains.
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 ...
An international team of researchers report on the bird's fully preserved skull. The fossil was unearthed in the 1950s in a former lignite mining area in the Geiseltal in Germany. It was initially ...
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