Archive for March 18th, 2013

New fossils show that four different types of birds had stiff feathers on their legs.

More than 100 million years ago, birds living in what is now China sported wings on their legs, a new study of fossils suggests. Researchers found evidence of large leg feathers in 11 bird specimens from China’s Shandong Tianyu Museum of Nature. The feathers suggest that early birds had four wings, which may have played […]