The end of a terror bird’s left tibiotarsus, a lower leg bone in birds equivalent to that of a human tibia or shin bone, dates back to the Miocene epoch around 12 ...

The team measured the wing and leg bones of 111 bat species and 149 bird species from around the world. Their dataset ...

Evidence of avian beginnings has been elusive in the fossil record because birds' light, hollow bones rapidly decompose ... This odd, crow-sized creature had long legs and three toes tipped ...

After proving herself with ancient DNA work on other birds, Shapiro persuaded the museum to let her take a chunk of leg bone. Publishing their results in the journal Science, she and her ...

To determine this rate of decline, an international team of paleogenetisicts examined DNA samples from 158 leg bones belonging to three species of Moa, extinct giant birds from New Zealand. The bones ...

Cooper’s research expertise in skeletal development will bridge the investigation from birds to mammals. Her laboratory at UC ...