Paleontological discoveries are becoming more and more surprising, especially considering the latest find by a group of experts who have discovered what is known as a new type of d ...

Digital reconstruction of the Late Cretaceous (~69 million years old) crown bird Vegavis iaai that was completed following ...

Learn more about Vegavis iaai, an ancient ancestor of modern-day ducks, and one of the earliest modern birds ever discovered.

For decades, scientists have wondered at the taxonomy of Vegavis iaai— an ancient avian specimen that lived in what is now ...

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

Researchers predict that a collision with the asteroid Bennu would plunge Earth into a year's long 'impact winter'.

In a nutshell A newly discovered 69-million-year-old bird skull from Antarctica proves that modern birds were already diverse ...

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

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

A 68-million-year-old skull fossil found in Antarctica has revealed the oldest known modern bird, which was likely related to ...

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