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.

One of the bored bird bones found in Northern Israel ... The bones were first excavated in 1955 but were recently reexamined. Seven wing bones from the site belonged to coots and teals.

As Laurent Davin sorted through prehistoric bird bones, he did not expect to ... All the specimens were made from the hollow wing bones of Eurasian coots (Fulica atra) and Eurasian teal (Anas ...

Seven small wing bones uncovered at a dig site in the Hula Valley - a popular bird watching spot to this day - were identified to have tiny holes bored into the bones for finger placement and as a ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...