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

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 ...

A new study in Nature describing a fossil of a nearly complete and intact bird skull from Antarctica is shedding light on the ...

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

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

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

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

This form of 'prehistoric foreplay' - evidenced by scrape marks in the dusty ground - was similar to that of some modern birds. Some dinosaur species are thought to have evolved elaborate horns ...

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

Sixty-six million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period, an asteroid impact near the Yucat n Peninsula of Mexico triggered the extinction of all known non-bird dinosaurs. But for the early ...