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

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

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

From ancient dinosaurs to mysterious early mammals, these eight fossil sites have provided some of the most groundbreaking ...

That sentiment stems from a new paper published in Current Biology which posits that dinosaur fossils older than we’ve ever ...

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

Sharks have ruled the Earth’s oceans for 400 million years. Recent research on fossil shark teeth has discovered an ...

In the icy wilderness of Antarctica, where glaciers now dominate the landscape, scientists have unearthed a fossil that ...

A puncture in the fossilized neck of a winged reptile that flew with the dinosaurs suggests the creature became a feast for a ...

This week, meet a big-brained ancient human relative, hear a meteorite as it lands on Earth, spot a tiny kangaroo-like ...

Antarctica may have been a refuge for early waterfowl ancestors, shielding them from the mass extinction that wiped out the dinosaurs.