in 2016 and was immediately recognised as significant because of the rarity of a full bird skeleton, particularly one of that age. But Daniel Field at the University of Cambridge says it wasn’t ...

The almost perfectly preserved skull of a prehistoric bird could be a sort of "Rosetta Stone" for understanding the evolution ...

The bird's skull "is strikingly modern looking," says Chiappe. "It gives you a very good understanding of the cranial anatomy of these early birds." The researchers were able to CT scan this ...