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.

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

But modern birds are exceptionally rare before the end-Cretaceous extinction ... and director of Earth and Space Sciences at Denver Museum of Nature & Science. Birds known from elsewhere on ...

A few fossilized body parts hinted at an enigmatic bird's close ties to waterfowl like ducks and geese. A newfound skull may bolster that idea.

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

THE long-lost forefather of the beloved duck and goose has been discovered, after outliving the hardy dinosaurs. The ...

The Late Cretaceous modern (crown ... professor at Ohio University, and director of Earth and Space Sciences at Denver Museum of Nature & Science. Birds known from elsewhere on the planet at ...

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

Bennu has a diameter of roughly 500 meters (1,640 feet) and has a 1 in 2,700 chance of hitting our planet in September 2182.

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