The skull exhibits a long, pointed beak and a brain shape unique among all known birds previously discovered from the ...

A newly discovered fossil provides strong evidence that modern birds lived alongside dinosaurs. The 69-million-year-old skull ...

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, ...

Fossils of 'Early Modern Bird' Reveal It Existed Before the Asteroid Strike That Likely Wiped Out the Dinosaurs When a ...

Some paleontologists think that fossils recovered from Antarctica are evidence of birds similar to modern geese and ducks ...

An artistic depiction of the Late Cretaceous modern (crown) bird, Vegavis iaai, pursuit diving for fish in the shallow ocean ...

Among the many unique qualities of this long-extinct Antarctic bird, it seems to have been the earliest creature that could ...

Scientists say a 69-million-year-old fossil found in Antarctica now represents the earliest known modern bird, shedding new light on the evolution of early avian species. The skull of Vegavis iaai, a ...

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

Omaha’s Durham Museum is inviting visitors to take a trip back to 200 million years ago when Antarctica was home to crocodile ...

This finding has shed new light on the evolutionary past of birds and revealed critical information about their survival and ...