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

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 ...

An international team of researchers report on the bird's fully preserved skull. The fossil was unearthed in the 1950s in a former lignite mining area in the Geiseltal in Germany. It was initially ...

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

Paleontologists have uncovered an exceptionally complete skull of a massive bird that lived 45 million years ago. This fossilized skull belonged to now-extinct Diatryma, a flightless bird that reached ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...