An amazingly well-preserved fossil skeleton of an extinct owl that lived more than six million years ago has been unearthed in China. The fossil was discovered nearly 7,000 feet (2,100 meters ...

Their detailed study of the skeleton's fossilized eye bones shows the owl was active in the daytime, not the night. The team's findings were published in Proceedings of the National Academy of ...

Therefore, I was especially pleased when I received a largely complete owl skeleton from the North American Willwood Formation for study, which my colleague and the study's co-author, Philip ...