Around 45 million years ago, a 4.6 foot-tall (1.40 meters) flightless bird called Diatryma roamed the Geiseltal region in ...

Around 45 million years ago, a 4.6 feet-tall (1.40 meters) flightless bird called Diatryma roamed the Geiseltal region in southern Saxony-Anhalt. An international team of researchers report on the ...

A forgotten fossil in a German museum turned out to be a rare Diatryma skull. Scientists corrected a decades-old ...

A misidentified Diatryma skull from Germany's Geiseltal region was rediscovered, confirming the rare bird's herbivorous ...

The researchers were able to use advanced micro-CT scanning technology to digitally reconstruct the bird's skull and brain with extraordinary detail. "This fossil is so truly one-of-a-kind that I ...

Around 45 million years ago, a 4.6-foot-tall (1.4 meters) bird called Diatryma roamed a warm, tropical swamp in what is now southern Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. This giant, flightless bird, known for its ...

Scientists use digital skull scans to reveal bird brain structures, intelligence, and evolution without actual brains.

It was among more than 1,900 Solnhofen fossils bought from Dr Karl Haberlein in 1862 for £700. Archaeopteryx shows a unique combination of dinosaur and bird characters. It is one of the few fossils ...

and the Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum in Frankfurt report on the bird's fully preserved skull in the scientific journal "Palaeontologia Electronica". The fossil was ...