A new study in Nature describing a fossil of a nearly complete and intact bird skull from Antarctica is shedding light on the ...

The discovery of a 69-million-year-old bird fossil is reshaping our understanding of avian evolution.

This evidence comes from a nearly complete, 69-million-year-old skull of an extinct bird, named Vegavis iaai. The fossil is ...

Dinosaurs were not exactly how we imagined them! These 8 groundbreaking fossil discoveries have completely changed what we ...

A near-perfect fossilized skull discovered in Antarctica reveals the bridge between prehistoric and modern birds, a new study ...

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Now, more than a decade later, new analysis of the fossils has found that they belong to a new 73-million-year-old species, according to a study published Jan. 28 in the peer-reviewed journal ...

With its glaciers and sub-zero temperatures, Antarctica hardly seems like a place of refuge. However, the now icy continent ...

Sixty-six million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period, an asteroid impact near the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico ...

Near the end of the age of dinosaurs, a bird resembling today's loons and grebes dove for fish and other prey in the perilous ...

An understanding of brain evolution may prove useful in the development of research in forensic psychology, including ...