The bird’s skull has an interesting background story ... has yielded numerous exceptionally well-preserved animal fossils. The Geiseltal Collection at MLU consists of 50,000 fossils, making ...

and the Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum in Frankfurt report on the bird's fully preserved skull in the journal Palaeontologia Electronica. The fossil was unearthed in the ...

Back in its heyday, this animal likely stalked hyraxes, elephants, early hippopotamuses, and even humanity’s own monkey-like ancestors. Paleontologists located B. syrtos’ football-sized skull ...

Sometimes intricate scenes were carved into a casque that was still attached to the bird’s skull. By the mid-1800s ... hunters who will shoot any animal they can eat or sell, says Dwi Adhiasto ...

(CNN) — A near complete skull fossil found in Antarctica has revealed the oldest known modern bird — a mallard duck ... on most of our modeling, and this animal, we recovered it in a marine ...