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, ...

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

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.

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