New fossil foot analysis reveals the surprising and varied lifestyles of dinosaur bird ancestors
- Written by: Phil Bell, Palaeontologist, Earth Science Faculty, University of New England
Feet of an Andean condor.Vladimir Wrangel/ShutterstockHave you ever eaten chicken feet? If you haven’t, you might be surprised to learn there’s actually quite a bit of flesh down there. And scales too! They’re wonderful – and informative – pieces of engineering.
As someone whose speciality is working on fossilised...