Learn more about Vegavis iaai, an ancient ancestor of modern-day ducks, and one of the earliest modern birds ever discovered.

The study examined beaches across England to identify the most appealing ... winter is prime time for fossil hunting, with storms revealing echinoids, ammonites, brachiopods and shark teeth.

In the heart of San Francisco, California, there’s a place where the curious and the quirky collide, where the past meets the ...

By examining fossils, researchers can identify significant evolutionary events such as ... millions of years and expanding our understanding of the evolutionary timeline. Ammonite fossil collection.

A romantic drama based on the life of British fossil-hunter Mary Anning (inspiration for the tongue-twister “She sells seashells on the seashore”), Ammonite caused some ... the work-up on its ...

Some paleontologists think that fossils recovered from Antarctica are evidence of birds similar to modern geese and ducks ...

An international team of researchers report on the bird's fully preserved skull. The fossil was unearthed in the 1950s in a former lignite mining area in the Geiseltal in Germany. It was initially ...

A near complete skull fossil found in Antarctica has revealed the oldest known modern bird — a mallard duck-size creature related to the waterfowl that live by lakes and oceans today ...

The fossil was unearthed in the 1950s in a former lignite mining area in the Geiseltal in Germany. It was initially misclassified and thus led a shadowy existence until its rediscovery.

The 20,000-year-old fossilized bones of "Ushikawa Man," thought to be some of Japan's most ancient human fossils, are not what scientists believed they were, new research finds. Instead ...