But some ancient eaters were messier than others. And in southwestern Germany, something especially sloppy left severed bird feet strewn about a dense fossil boneyard. The Messel Pit is one of the ...

Q Birds don't have feathers on their legs, so why don't their legs and feet freeze in the winter? A Even though their feet and legs aren't protected by insulating feathers, birds seldom suffer ...

Birds lack "proper" hands, so their feet have to do twice the work—perching, walking, grasping, manipulating food. They're naturally well adapted to do those jobs.

But some ancient eaters were messier than others. And in southwestern Germany, something especially sloppy left severed bird feet strewn about a dense fossil boneyard. The Messel Pit is one of the ...

under CC-BY 4.0 Mysterious creatures with bird-like feet roamed around southern Africa more than 210 million years ago, according to new research—roughly 60 million years before the earliest ...

Animals with bird-like feet were roaming the planet more than 200 million years ago, scientists say. Analysis of ancient footprints, which experts were calling Trisauropodiscus, suggest these ...