About 130 million years ago, when pterosaurs still dominated the skies, the bird whose fossil remains are pictured here waded along a lakeshore in northeast China. To paleontologists this ten-inch ...

Since they don't experience evolutionary pressure to stay in flying form, they gradually lose some of the features of their skeletons and feathers that help them fly. Meanwhile, some birds' bodies ...

For years it has cast a shadow over a section of Goodison Park. The silhouette of what had the appearance of the skeleton of a bird was a familiar sight to regulars in the Upper Bullens.