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

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

Fossils of 'Early Modern Bird' Reveal It Existed Before the Asteroid Strike That Likely Wiped Out the Dinosaurs When a ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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