The find was made by an amateur fossil hunter on the Cliffs of Stevns, which offers “exceptional evidence” of the meteorite impact on Earth about 65 million years ago that brought an end to ...

Certain birds that gave rise to today’s ducks and geese found sanctuary in Antarctica during a mass extinction event 66 ...

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

A few fossilized body parts hinted at an enigmatic bird's close ties to waterfowl like ducks and geese. A newfound skull may bolster that idea.

Around 20 years ago, a team of paleontologists identified Vegavis iaai for the first time, citing a fossil from Antarctica, around 68 million years to 66 million years old. At the time of the ...

One of the Victorian carcharodontosaur shinbones was found on the Otway Coast. The other was found on the Bass Coast, in ...

A 69-million-year-old skull found in Antarctica belonged to what scientists ... Vegavis was first reported 20 years ago by University of Texas at Austin co-author Dr. Julia Clarke.

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 ...

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