A newly analysed fossil skull settles a palaeontological debate over Vegavis iaai, confirming it as a relative of ducks and ...

In a nutshell A newly discovered 69-million-year-old bird skull from Antarctica proves that modern birds were already diverse ...

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Bird beaks come in all shapes and sizes, and through observing those differences we can learn a lot about them. Our education ...

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 ...

While the man-made and woman-made gusts and microbursts whip Washington, D.C., into chaos, the only disturbances here are at ...

A newly discovered fossil in Antarctica, estimated to be 68 million years old, reveals the oldest known modern bird, Vegavis ...

Birds have many features that distinguish them from other animals alive today, but their earliest ancestors looked noticeably different from the familiar creatures we’ve come to recognise. Although ...

A new study in Nature describing a fossil of a nearly complete and intact bird skull from Antarctica is shedding light on the ...

Scientists have made an exciting discovery—a 69-million-year-old fossil found in Antarctica is the oldest known modern bird.

Learn about different seeds that birds love to eat: mix various seeds to create a bird food mix to take home and use in your feeder! Beaks, beaks, beaks: hands on experience with different bird beaks ...

Birds-of-paradise number around 45 species and typically have elaborate feathers, colors, and mating displays. Birds also ...