Evidence of avian beginnings has been elusive in the fossil record because birds' light, hollow bones rapidly decompose. So far, the oldest-known bird fossil is the famous Archaeopteryx ...

The Bearded Vulture is a unique bird that specialises in eating bone marrow by breaking bones and swallowing them whole ...

Airplane wings are modeled after bird wings. The bones and muscles of the wing are also highly specialized. The main bone, the humerus, which is similar to the upper arm of a mammal, is hollow ...

Scientists described two fossilized birds from the Jurassic period in a recent article published in the journal Nature on Wednesday, marking a "historic" discovery. Unearthed in the Zhenghe region ...

I am a senior curator of the avian anatomical collections, including both the avian osteological and spirit collections, some 35000 specimens in total. I am responsible for the ongoing development of ...