Skull fossil discovery reveals oldest known modern bird
A 68-million-year-old skull fossil found in Antarctica has revealed the oldest known modern bird, which was likely related to ...
Cretaceous fossil from Antarctica reveals earliest modern bird
Sixty-six million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period, an asteroid impact near the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico ...
Loon-like waterfowl from dinosaur-era Antarctica is oldest 'modern' bird
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 waters off Antarctica. Thanks to a nearly complete fossil skull, ...
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45 Million-Year-Old Remains of an Extinct Bird Species Resurrected, Identified to Be Herbivores by Experts
Old Remains of an Extinct Bird Species Resurrected, Identified to Be Herbivores by Experts An international team of researchers led by the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU) and the ...
My Jaw Is Actually Still Completely On The Floor After Seeing These 75 Fascinating Pictures For The Very First Time Last Month
It's called Malo kingi, aka the "common kingslayer," a jellyfish that's one of the most venomous animals on the planet. It is ...
Pictures of the once 'rare bird' saved from extinction in Herefordshire
The large bird of prey largely feeds on carrion and worms and cuts a distinctive silhouette with wing tips that look like ...
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Pictures show birds saved from extinction in Herefordshire
A buzzard in Clehonger (Image: Tony Dell) The Wildlife Trust's view is echoed by the Hawk Conservancy Trust, which said they were lost from many parts of the UK due to ongoing persecution, a crash in ...
Vantara Partners With ACTP To Reintroduce 41 Extinct-In-The-Wild Spix’s Macaws In Brazil
Declared extinct in the wild in 2000, Spixs macaws (Cyanopsitta spixii) are now at the heart of a historic initiative to ...
Stunning pictures show saved from extinction bird in Herefordshire
A buzzard in Clehonger (Image: Tony Dell) The Wildlife Trust's view is echoed by the Hawk Conservancy Trust, which said they were lost from many parts of the UK due to ongoing persecution, a crash in ...
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Incredible pictures as rare exotic bird turns up at Isle of Man farm
Yellowhammers, a conspicuous canary yellow farmland bunting, were once a common sight in the Isle of Man. But their numbers dropped drastically in the 1990s and from around 2010 they had become very ...
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February’s Birds of the Month: which ones will you see?
In February, Avocets begin to arrive on their breeding grounds – typically an area of lagoons on a coastal marsh. Their eggs ...
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Fossilized Poop Reveals How Extinct, Flightless Birds Helped Spread New Zealand’s Colorful Fungi
Boast and a team of researchers, for example, are using fossilized dung to learn more about the diets of extinct flightless birds called moa that once roamed around New Zealand. Coprolites helped ...