As Earth approaches warmer levels experienced earlier in its geologic history, it may be bad news for human survival.

Giant 20-foot-long raptor dinosaurs once roamed Australia, according to a new study that could rewrite the evolutionary ...

Does a duck always look like a duck and quack like a duck? Sixty-six million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period, ...

Learn more about the discovery of megaraptorid and carcharodontosaur fossils that shake up Australia’s Cretaceous predatory ...

In the icy wilderness of Antarctica, where glaciers now dominate the landscape, scientists have unearthed a fossil that rewrites the story of modern birds. The nearly complete skull of Vegavis iaai, a ...

A recently analyzed near-complete fossil skull found in Antarctica has revealed Vegavis iaai to be the oldest known modern bird, according to a study published in Nature. 66 million years ago ...

On Feb. 6, 2020, five years ago ... Antarctic Peninsula. This peninsula extends northeastward into the warmer Southern Ocean about 600 miles south-southeast of the tip of South America. This 65 ...

The new fossil unearthed on Vega Island near the Antarctic Peninsula of the ancient bird named Vegavis iaai dates to about 69 million years ago, approximately three million years before the ...

Scientists have revealed that a 69-million-year-old animal skull discovered in Antarctica belongs to the ... Vegavis was first identified 20 years ago by Julia Clark, a professor at the University ...

Anseriformes (aka waterfowl) have now been established as an exception, thanks to a scientific description of a fossil found during a 2011 expedition to the Antarctic ... 2-68.4 million years ago ...

A near-perfect fossilized skull discovered in Antarctica reveals the bridge between prehistoric and modern birds, a new study has found. The fossil is a specimen of a species called Vegavis iaai, ...