An extraordinarily well-preserved fossil owl was described in PNAS this past March. Owls are not new to the fossil record; evidence of their existence has been found in scattered limbs and ...

An exquisitely preserved fossil skeleton of an extinct owl reveals this species hunted by day, and marks a dramatic shift in our understanding of owl evolution. Newsletters Games Share a News Tip.

Fossils Massive, prehistoric owl with 'hunting feet' discovered The fossilized remains were excavated from the Bighorn Basin in Wyoming in 1990 ...

The fossil owl, an extinct species that the researchers have named Miosurnia diurnal, is exquisitely preserved, said Li Zhiheng, a paleontologist at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and ...

image: Fossil skeleton of the daytime active owl Miosurnia diurna from China (below) with an expanded view of the skull (top left). The eye bones or scleral ossicles are false colored blue and set ...

Discoveries from the early stages of owl evolution are exceedingly rare. An approximately 60-million-year-old leg bone is the oldest fossil that can be assigned to an owl. "Other owls from this ...

A Smithsonian-led team of researchers have discovered North America's oldest known pterosaur, the winged reptiles that lived ...

A single deposit has produced a wealth of fossils revealing the late Triassic ecosystem, where giant amphibians cohabited ...

Exactly when barred owls split from this ancestral bird of prey isn’t clear, but researchers have found barred owl fossils in Pleistocene deposits in Florida and Ontario, and in a Tennessee cave ...