Researchers have long assumed that a tube in the famous Pikaia fossil ran along the animal’s back. But a new study turned the ...
We’ve known for a long time that birds are the closest living relatives of dinosaurs, but new clues are shedding light on a ...
Until about 45,000 years ago, Australia was home to a giant flightless bird called Genyornis newtoni, which was 2 meters tall ...
Geese have a reputation for being aggressive, unpleasant birds, so imagine one that’s more than 2 m (6.6 ft) tall and weighs about 230 kg (507 lb). That’s Genyornis newtoni, an Ice Age ...
The most complete skull of the extinct, flightless bird ever found has revealed adaptations that might have made the creature well-adapted for a life near water Will Sullivan Daily Correspondent ...
Australia’s prehistoric thunder birds – once thought to be the ancestors of emus – were, in fact, the biggest geese that ever lived. The group has been reclassified following the analysis of ...
Researchers from Flinders University have uncovered partial fossils of a 45,000-year-old prehistoric bird in Far North SA.
Excavated from a gravel pit near Abingdon-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, the fossil includes part of the pterosaur's wing bone, which was broken into three pieces but still well-preserved. Experts from ...
Should we be worried about the first human case of the H5N2 strain of bird flu? H5N2, confirmed in a man in Mexico who died, ...
Trevor H. Worthy has received funding from the Australian Research Council in the past. Jacob C. Blokland and Phoebe ...
South Australian scientists have made the once-in-a-century discovery of a giant prehistoric bird that roamed the state 45,000 years ago. Flinders University researchers have uncovered the skull ...
(MENAFN- The Conversation) Until around 45,000 years ago, Australia was home to a giant flightless bird called Genyornis newtoni, which was two metres tall and weighed up to 230 kilograms.