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 ...

A Cretaceous-era skull found on Vega Island, Antarctica, has been confirmed as a member of the same order as ducks and geese, ...

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 ...

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

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 ...