Jurassic bird fossil discovery of a species named Baminornis zhenghensis pushes bird evolution timeline back 20 million years ...

Discover the remarkable 70-million-year-old dinosaur embryo found in Missouri, offering fresh insights into dinosaur ...

A team of researchers have shed light on the emergence of modern birds from dinosaurs, providing physical evidence that modern birds and dinosaurs co-existed during the Cretaceous period.

Does a duck always look like a duck and quack like a duck? Sixty-six million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period, ...

Upward of 27,000 greaters and lessers migrate through south-central Colorado between mid-February and mid-April, and they’ve ...

An artistic depiction of the Late Cretaceous modern (crown) bird, Vegavis iaai, pursuit diving for fish in the shallow ocean ...

Among the many unique qualities of this long-extinct Antarctic bird, it seems to have been the earliest creature that could ...

With threats of avian flu and lead poisoning, biologists are working overtime to care for a species that nearly went extinct.

In her work, Niki Saint Phalle repeatedly referenced a personal and mythical bestiary that she brought to life in colorful ...

For decades, scientists have wondered at the taxonomy of Vegavis iaai— an ancient avian specimen that lived in what is now ...

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 ...