Our bird skeleton collection, also called the avian osteology collection, is the largest of its kind in the UK. It contains around 16,600 specimens, including complete and partial skeletons and skulls ...

Prof. Owen examined it but was sceptical about its being the bone of a bird, but on further examination he was convinced that it was indeed part of the skeleton of a large extinct flightless bird.

A collection of some of the world's largest birds has received an eagle-eyed check by museum experts in Leeds. Each more than ...

in 2016 and was immediately recognised as significant because of the rarity of a full bird skeleton, particularly one of that age. But Daniel Field at the University of Cambridge says it wasn’t ...