The “one-of-a-kind” fossil of Navaornis hestiae helps fill a giant gap in scientists’ understanding of how bird brains ...

A FLESH-EATING bird has been uncovered after nearly 12 million years in a Colombian desert. Scientists revealed this extinct “Terror Bird” was the largest of its kind but explained which ...

Working in collaboration with the company Nature Perspectives, Jack chose the specimens to bring back to life, including dodo and whale skeletons, a taxidermied red panda and a preserved cockroach.

Perhaps the dodo wouldn’t be so well-known today if Lewis Carroll hadn’t included it as a character in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865). The flightless bird’s popularity was further amplified ...

A study of a remarkable medieval skeleton found in a well at a castle in Norway has helped to corroborate events detailed in an 800-year-old Norse saga. Michael Martin, one of the authors of the ...

In 1938, a medieval well in the ruins of Sverresborg castle was partly drained and a skeleton was found beneath rubble and boulders at the bottom. While it was widely believed that the skeleton ...

Early birds posed a fearsome threat. But as they responded to these competitors, cicadas evolved sleeker and more powerful wings, according to a paper published on Friday in the journal Science ...

Here’s how it works. The rapid evolution of cicadas' flight ability may have been spurred by the emergence of predatory birds, new research suggests. These insects' bodies and wing shapes ...

No one in Northern Ireland has been prosecuted for illegally killing birds of prey, despite 89 confirmed incidents in the past 15 years. The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB)’s ...

Take Home Depot’s Giant animated Jack Skellington: The 13-foot-tall skeleton also comes at a whopping price of $399. Lance Allen, senior merchant of Decorative Holiday at The Home Depot ...

Setting it on fire also works. This bird skeleton creature sets things on fire when you attack it, which can be helpful if you're surrounded or being tracked by other beasts. However, that makes it ...

The dodo was a flightless bird that lived on the island nation of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean. It is a case study of extinction caused by humans. The dodo had adapted to its isolated ecosystem ...