THE long-lost forefather of the beloved duck and goose has been discovered, after outliving the hardy dinosaurs. The feathered creature thrived during the Cretaceous period, and continued to do so ...

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

That’s not even close to the size of the “planet-killer” asteroid that slammed into Earth 66 million years ago and led to the extinction of dinosaurs. That one was estimated to be about 6.2 ...

The near-complete fossil skull, unearthed on Vega Island near the Antarctic Peninsula, reveals a bird that thrived in the challenging waters off Antarctica roughly 69 million years ago, just three ...

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

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.

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

The fossil suggests that modern birds evolved before the dinosaur-killing asteroid, perhaps in Antarctica Margherita Bassi Daily Correspondent An illustration of the Vegavis iaai diving for fish ...

The ‘city killer’ asteroid (possibly) heading our way might spare us and slam into the Moon instead, scientists said. The ...

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 ...

Scientists have identified a previously unknown dinosaur species from an unlikely ... Stromer and his colleagues drew and photographed some of its bones and decided the creature was a member ...