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 ...

A team of researchers have shed light on the emergence of modern birds from dinosaurs, providing physical evidence that modern birds and dinosaurs co-existed during the Cretaceous period.

Chances are, your grandmother already owns Fashion Week’s biggest accessory trend: the elegant brooch. These runway brooches ...

Researchers in China found Baminornis zhenghensis, which lived at roughly the same time as the famous Archaeopteryx but ...

The fossil was missing most of its skull, however, which made it difficult to confirm any claims of it being an early modern ...

A near complete skull fossil found in Antarctica has revealed the oldest known modern bird — a mallard duck-size creature ...

The fossilized 69-million-year-old skull of the oldest known modern bird has been discovered. The early relatives of ducks ...

Her earrings weren’t the only standout jewelry moment of the evening—there was also Lady Gaga’s necklace, a never-before-seen piece from the Tiffany & Co. archives; Charlotte Lawrence and ...

A California duck farm made headlines this week after the World Organization of Animal Health published a report by U.S. authorities that a strain of bird flu that scientists call H5N9 had been ...

Bird flu is a global challenge that has already resulted in the culling of hundreds of millions of poultry—and has spread to mammalian species, including dairy cows in the U.S. The H5N1 strain ...

Yet venerating relics remains far from a “relic” of the past. At the end of 2024, the skull of St. Thomas Aquinas – the great Dominican medieval thinker whose writings I study – made its ...