Science news articles about 'ancient birds'

The poo of a giant bird that roamed New Zealand thousands of years ago is giving researchers insight into the pre-human history of the country.

Analysis of color-producing molecules discovered in a fossil suggests that an ancient bird had a dark, iridescent sheen.

Traces of pigments found in feather fossils from ancient birds.

... report states. "The identified peptides seem consistent with a sample containing old, quite possibly very ancient, bird-like bone, contaminated with only fairly explicable proteins. ...