Fossils of 'Early Modern Bird' Reveal It Existed Before the Asteroid Strike That Likely Wiped Out the Dinosaurs When a ...

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

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Researchers suggest that studying the biological designs of prehistoric creatures could advance materials science.

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

The fossil suggests that modern birds evolved before the dinosaur-killing asteroid, perhaps in Antarctica Margherita Bassi ...

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

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

after outliving the hardy dinosaurs. The feathered creature thrived during the Cretaceous period, and continued to do so even after an Earth-shattering asteroid strike 66million years ago.

They recovered a well-preserved hip bone (sacrum) of an Edmontosaurus dinosaur from the Hell Creek Formation in South Dakota. This formation dates back to the late Cretaceous period, suggesting this ...

The fossilised neck bone of a dinosaur that was bitten by a crocodile-like creature 76 million years ago has been discovered by researchers. The bone, which belonged to a young flying reptile, was ...

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 ...