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

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

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

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

A near-perfect fossilized skull discovered in Antarctica reveals the bridge between prehistoric and modern birds, a new study ...

It instead had a spear-shaped beak like a loon. Its skeletal structure indicates ... "We know that Vegavis would have shared ...

That's the way one scientist puts it — referring to how infected wild birds survive long enough to spread it to birds and ...

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 ...

Beak and Feather Disease Virus ... it poses to both wild and captive bird populations. Recent studies have confirmed the circulation of BFDV in various countries, including Bangladesh and India ...

hoping to discover just why they call it Twin Beaks. These references must have been fun for their parents though. Agent Cookie even meets a bird going by the name David Finch, and even the Log Bird.

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