You may not think of dinosaurs when you think of love and romance, but on Valentine's Day, the Museum of the Rockies is ...

Pinpointing when birds diverged completely from dinosaurs has long remained a paleontological mystery.

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

Baminornis is a landmark discovery and ranks among the most important bird fossils unearthed since the discovery ...

In a nutshell A newly discovered 69-million-year-old bird skull from Antarctica proves that modern birds were already diverse ...

"Few birds are as likely to start as many arguments among paleontologists as 'vegavis,'" said professor Christopher Torres.

Above the shores of prehistoric seas and lakes, pterosaurs roamed the skies. They were feathered creatures that ranged in ...

A newly discovered fossil in Antarctica, estimated to be 68 million years old, reveals the oldest known modern bird, Vegavis ...

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

The fossil, a nearly complete, 69-million-year-old skull, belongs to an extinct bird ... among all known birds previously discovered from the Mesozoic Era when non-avian dinosaurs and a bizarre ...

Estimated to be 68 million years old, the fossil belongs to Vegavis iaai, an extinct bird species ... led to the extinction of the dinosaurs. Unlike modern birds, many avian species from that ...

The specimen belongs to a species of extinct bird known as Vegavis iaai ... extinction that famously killed off the non-avian dinosaurs. In the case of Vegavis, surviving the asteroid impact ...