Weeks et al, Longer Wing Bones in Warmer Climates Suggest a Role of Thermoregulation in Bird Wing Evolution, Global Ecology and Biogeography (2025). DOI: 10.1111/geb.70033 ...

the researchers used the wing bones of two female mallard ducks. Blowing into the replicas produced sounds that they compared with the calls of dozens of bird species plying the Hula Valley.

Just about everyone knows that birds have hollow bones. The humerus, clavicle, sternum, pelvic girdle, and lumbar and sacral ...

Newly discovered feathers were crucial to how Archaeopteryx was able to fly. Archaeopteryx is the fossil that helped confirm ...

Out of 1,112 bones and bone fragments from 58 different bird species, the research team identified one complete set and six pieces of "worked" wing bones, with the clearly human addition of ...

They observed in both bats and birds that the shape of the bones within a species' wing (handwing ... results are different: Bird species show little to no correlation, whereas bats show strong ...

Clark, O’Connor and their colleagues began studying the fossil in early 2023, and they were surprised by the bird’s lack of teeth in addition to its unusual forelimbs, or wing bones.

It’s the first known time the 3D printed fixator has been used to help stabilize the broken bones of a bird’s wing in Hawaii. Other birds, like Polly the duck in Texas, have gotten other help ...