Valentine's cards and gifts have their roots in English traditions — but Americans have long embraced them for romantic ...

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

Certain birds that gave rise to today’s ducks and geese found sanctuary in Antarctica during a mass extinction event 66 ...

While historians have long debated the holiday's origin story, evidence shows it predates the existence of commercial greeting cards by centuries.

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

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

A stark contrast to the feathers of flying dinosaurs like Archaeopteryx and most modern-day birds. But with a wealth of feathered dinosaur fossils found in just a few years, scientists have pieced ...

At the time, most modern bird fossils were discovered after the mass extinction event 66 million years ago, when an asteroid struck near present-day Mexico. Many researchers believed that birds ...

A new and nearly complete skull of Vegavis iaai discovered in Antarctica suggests that modern birds originated before the end ...

Most modern bird fossils that had been unearthed at that ... While Vegavis resembled present-day waterfowl in some ways, other features didn’t fit the mold. For instance, the study noted that ...