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

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

Dive into the findings of the first detailed study of plesiosaur skin, which was a strange mosaic of textures.

A recently analyzed near-complete fossil skull found in Antarctica has revealed Vegavis iaai to be the oldest known modern bird, according to a study published in Nature.

Every new discovery, no matter how strange or unusual it may be, adds facts about the pre available information of Earth's ...

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 ...

A QUARTER of a century ago, when first I began to study geology, it appeared to me that a predominance was given to the more recent rocks, such as the Pleistocene, Miocene, Eocene, Cretaceous ...

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So, this newly uncovered Canadian fossil from Alberta points to new information in the study of cretaceous period feeding habits. “We discuss the likely origin of the bite mark and its maker as ...