This evidence comes from a nearly complete, 69-million-year-old skull of an extinct bird, named Vegavis iaai. The fossil is ...

In the icy wilderness of Antarctica, where glaciers now dominate the landscape, scientists have unearthed a fossil that ...

Paleontologists have been arguing whether modern birds developed before or after the infamous asteroid for decades. Now, a ...

In a study published in January, researchers confirmed the preservation of original organic molecules in Mesozoic dinosaur ...

Did dinosaurs like these dromaeosaurs dine on ancient duck relatives in Antarctica ... and gave rise to a “big bang” of modern bird evolution only after the rest of the dinosaurs died.

The skull, from an ancient relative of ducks and geese known as Vegavis iaai, suggests that the key characteristics of modern birds were already in place 69 million years ago. Birds evolved from ...

You can see where feathers evolved, where wings evolved, where these dinosaurs got smaller and smaller. You can map all of those things out and that can tell you the narrative of how evolution ...

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

A new study by Ohio University found an important fossil of the oldest known modern bird, which lived in Antarctica when ...

Study suggests dinosaurs originated in the Amazon, but their fossils are missing. They started as small, bipedal creatures in ...

The mystery behind the origins of the dinosaurs may have been given a new twist, with a modeling study suggesting they may have evolved in what is today equatorial Africa and South America. This would ...