Sixty-six million years ago, an asteroid impact triggered the extinction of non-avian dinosaurs. Yet, some early birds, ...

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

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

That sentiment stems from a new paper published in Current Biology which posits that dinosaur fossils older than we’ve ever ...

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

For the first time, scientists have completed an in-depth analysis of fossilized soft tissues from a plesiosaur ...

Digital reconstruction of the Late Cretaceous (~69 million years old) crown bird Vegavis iaai that was completed following ...

In 1992, a paleontologist unearthed the fossil of a prehistoric bird called "Vegavis iaai" in Antarctica and hypothesized that it was an early relative of today's ducks and geese. However, because the ...

Scientists in Antarctica claim they have may have discovered the oldest modern bird ever found. The fossil which is a skull ...

A study of the fossil teeth of early Homo from Georgia dating back 1.77 million years reveals a ... Nov. 13, 2024 — A new study finds that the disturbance-demanding plant species oak ...

The dorsal and caudal vertebrae of the Sihui Museum specimen Photos: Courtesy of a research team led by Xing Lida from the China University of Geosciences (Beijing) Chinese and Canadian academicians ...