A Tiny Fossil Reveals Part of the Complex History of Puffbirds and Jacamars in Europe
When the fragment of calcareous plate was unearthed in sunny southeastern France, there was a hint of the presence within it of small fossil bones.
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900 Tiny Toe Bones Tell a Story About Prehistoric Eagles
Oona Takano’s research focuses on how something big — Pleistocene megafauna extinctions — affected something very small: the toe bones of eagles.
What a Fossil Foot Can Teach Us About Ancient Relatives of Cranes
In ancient Chinese mythology, cranes were said to carry the souls of the dead to paradise.