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

Near the end of the age of dinosaurs, a bird resembling today's loons and grebes dove for fish and other prey in the perilous ...

You can map all of those things out and that can tell you the narrative of how evolution took a dinosaur and turned it into a bird.” “We can also calibrate that tree to time,” explains the ...

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

The near-complete fossil skull, unearthed on Vega Island near the Antarctic Peninsula, reveals a bird that thrived in the ...

Birds that fill the world’s skies today are living dinosaurs, reminders of a distant and strange past ... It was possibly due to a move by some small theropods into trees in search of either food or ...

VEGA ISLAND: Near the end of the age of dinosaurs, a bird resembling today’s loons and grebes dove for fish and other prey in ...

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

A recently analyzed near-complete fossil skull found in Antarctica has revealed Vegavis iaai to be the oldest known modern bird, according to a study published in Nature.

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 ...

Scientists from the Museum and Cambridge University have proposed radical changes to the dinosaur family tree, based on their analysis of hundreds of fossil features. The research provides important ...