The international scientific community rebuffed this hypothesis. They were looking outside Africa for human origins and ...

Paleontologists have been arguing whether modern birds developed before or after the infamous asteroid for decades. Now, a ...

Vegavis, an ancient bird from Antarctica, identified as the oldest modern bird ancestor with specialized fish-hunting adaptations.

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

With its glaciers and sub-zero temperatures, Antarctica hardly seems like a place of refuge. However, the now icy continent ...

Near the end of the age of dinosaurs, a bird resembling today's loons and grebes dove for fish and other prey in the perilous ...

The near-complete fossil skull, unearthed on Vega Island near the Antarctic Peninsula, reveals a bird that thrived in the ...

The earliest indisputable fossil evidence of hominins outside of Africa comes from Dmanisi, Georgia which indicates that our ancestors were there by 1.8 million years ago. However, there have been ...

Paleontologists have known something strange happened between the end of the Triassic Period and the beginning of the Jurassic for the ... Even though direct fossil evidence of fuzzy Triassic ...

Stargate already has the blessing of newly-inaugurated president Donald Trump who this week said he has plans to “unleash” the US fossil fuel industry. Looser regulations on oil and gas ...

It is part of a raft of measures to boost America’s already colossal fossil fuel production, backed up by claims that the country needs to tackle high energy prices and prepare for increased ...

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