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11 May 2020

AOS Staff

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.

photo showing many small fossil toe bones organized into compartments in a tray
06 April 2020

AOS Staff

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.

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02 December 2019

AOS Staff

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.

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