A bird fossil in China from the time of dinosaurs showed a huge chunk of rock inside the creature's throat. However, it ...

But in the thousands of fossil birds in the same group as this little fossil, none have ever been found with gizzard stones. To help determine if the new little bird was simply the first of its kind ...

Tens of millions of years ago, a diverse array of bird species soared, swam, and thrived amid their scaly reptile cousins—and ...

The unlucky fossil bird, preserved with over 800 tiny rocks in its throat (visible as the gray mass next to the left of its neck bones). A fossil only tells part of the story. When an animal’s body is ...

In 1989, paleontologist Darren Tanke suggested that similar breaks were the result of mating as one dinosaur mounted the ...

The sparrow-sized bird's fossil was detected in Northeastern Asia, according to Earth.com. Its throat was filled with an ...

Around 120 million years ago, a bird swallowed over 800 tiny stones and choked to death as a result. Paleontologists aren’t sure why. Like many recent fossil “discoveries,” researchers with the Field ...

A 70 million year old dinosaur egg from China stunned scientists when it revealed glittering crystals inside, raising new ...

A new study led by a researcher from the School of Zoology and the Steinhardt Museum of Natural History at Tel Aviv ...

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The manumea, a critically endangered ground pigeon and one of the closest living dodo relatives, has been spotted multiple ...

Some feathered dinosaurs may have lost the ability to fly, revealing that the evolution of flight was far more complex than ...