A fossilised bird skull found in Antarctica reveals evolutionary links between Vegavis iaai and modern waterfowl species.

Around 50,000 years ago, North America was home to a diverse array of megafauna. Mammoths roamed the tundra, while towering ...

What would have happened if, 65 million years ago, a meteor had not struck the Earth, contributing to the extinction of the ...

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 ...

TIMES is the title of the international team's project, which is an acronym for "Time Integrated Matrix for Earth Sciences." ...

In this forest thick with trees up to 600 years old lives the southernmost population of the California condor (Gymnogyps ...

The discovery of a 69-million-year-old bird fossil is reshaping our understanding of avian evolution.

Antarctica may have been a refuge for early waterfowl ancestors, shielding them from the mass extinction that wiped out the dinosaurs.

The new skull exhibits a long, pointed beak and a brain shape unique among all known birds previously discovered from the ...

The new skull exhibits a long, pointed beak and a brain shape unique among all known birds previously discovered from the ...