Miniature flutes crafted 12,000 years ago from bird bones and discovered in northern Israel may have been used for bird calls at a time when humans were refining their interactions with animals, a ...

The team's system, "Skelevision," uses artificial intelligence to automatically identify and measure bird bones from photographs. "We use a deep neural network to detect individual bones in ...

A team of archaeologists posit a unique theory about 12,000-year-old bird bones from the Levant, which appear to have been crafted into flutes.

They can climb onto other animals to drink their blood, pluck insects from leaves or hover to drink nectar from tropical flowers, all of which require distinctive wing designs.

Davin was revisiting a collection of 1,112 bird bones from the site, all dated between 10,730 and 9,760 BCE, when he noticed one with a curious perforation. It was tiny and delicate, yet the holes ...

Fast Forward 12,000-year-old flutes found in Israel may be earliest bird-call whistles in the world Israeli archaeologists find seven tiny whistles made of bone that emit sounds like calls of ...

Seven waterfowl wing bones with small holes carved into them were discovered in northern Israel’s Hula Valley, researchers said. The “meticulously made” perforations would have functioned as ...

New fossil scans reveal that a tiny wrist bone in "Citipati" dinosaurs may have set the stage for the evolution of bird ...

While the cause of Nox's injury remains unknown, it is certain that veterinarians would not have been able to help a bird with this kind of wing injury 20 years ago.