A fossil only tells part of the story. When an animal's body is preserved as a fossil, there are often pieces missing, and ...

Paleontologists at Chicago's Field Museum have concluded that a cluster of stones lodged in the ancient bird's throat likely ...

Around 120 million years ago, a bird swallowed over 800 tiny stones and choked to death as a result. Paleontologists aren’t ...

After theorizing on the fossilized bird’s cause of death, the paleontologists decided on the new species’ name: Chromeornis ...

Ancient pterosaurs may have taken to the skies far earlier and more explosively than birds, evolving flight at their very ...

A fossil only tells part of the story. When an animal’s body is preserved as a fossil, there are often pieces missing, and ...

Animals often swallow stones called gastroliths to help grind food. But none of the thousands of similar fossil birds have ever been found with swallowed stones.

A prehistoric bird that lived and died 120 million years ago has presented forensic paleontologists with a baffling medical ...

This newly identified species, called Chromeornis funkyi, was discovered with a throat full of tiny stones, a discovery that ...

For starters, the tiny bird had over 800 tiny stones in its throat, way above what you’d expect. Furthermore, based on their ...

A small dinosaur discovered, Pulaosaurus qinglong, had seeds in its stomach and a “vocal box,” revealing how dinosaurs might ...