A newly studied Vegavis iaai skull from Antarctica confirms that modern bird lineages, like ducks and geese, were evolving ...

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

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 fossilized skull of a bird called Vegavis, which lived in the Antarctic some 68.7 million years ago, confirms it was an early member of the waterfowl group. However, the skull also suggests ...

Among the many unique qualities of this long-extinct Antarctic bird, it seems to have been the earliest creature that could ...

(CNN) — 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 ...

A nearly complete skull of the creature was found in the Egyptian desert. Its lineage indicates that it was a top carnivore ...

The skull exhibits a long, pointed beak and a brain shape unique among all known birds previously discovered from the ...

A newly-described fossil skull has given paleontologists their best look yet at a hyaenodont with a meat-cleaving bite. Found in the 30 million-year-old rock of Egypt’s Fayum Basin, the ...

Before Darwin’s theory became central to evolutionary biology, it still had gaps that were left to be filled—until a certain ...

Scientists in China have pushed the timeline of avian evolution back by 20 million years with the discovery of the world’s earliest known bird, Baminornis zhenghensis. Unearthed in the Jurassic rock ...