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

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

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

Paleontologists in Denmark found a once-gloopy, now-hardened mess that they believe was spat up by a Cretaceous-era fish.

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.

Sixty-six million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period, an asteroid impact near the Yucat n Peninsula of Mexico triggered the extinction of all known non-bird dinosaurs. But for the early ...

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 ...

Learn more about Vegavis iaai, an ancient ancestor of modern-day ducks, and one of the earliest modern birds ever discovered.

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 ...