Modern birds are the living relatives of dinosaurs. Take a look at the features of flightless birds like chickens and ...

Scientists used strontium isotopes in Misha the elephant’s teeth to track her movements, revealing a method to study ancient ...

A small elephant approached a waterhole in the Sabi Sand Nature Reserve in South Africa and got too close to a lapwing. But the tiny bird suddenly became very territorial with the curious calf.

Credit: Andrew McAfee (Carnegie Museum of Natural History), 2025. A newly studied Vegavis iaai skull from Antarctica confirms that modern bird lineages, like ducks and geese, were evolving alongside ...

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The animal is called Vegavis iaai—a Late Cretaceous diving bird which lived at the same time that Tyrannosaurus rex was dominating North America. The skull exhibits a long, pointed beak and a ...

A team of researchers have shed light on the emergence of modern birds from dinosaurs, providing physical evidence that modern birds and dinosaurs co-existed during the Cretaceous period.

The new specimen described in this study has something that all previous fossils of this bird have lacked: a nearly complete skull. A pair of Vegavis iaai, the earliest known modern bird at 69 million ...

The new species was identified following the discovery of a near-complete skull in the Egyptian desert of Fayum, the world's largest petrified forest. Scientists believe the newly-identified ...

In fact, some of the earliest bird species were populating the skies … or even wading in the waters. A recent study published in the scientific journal “Nature” sheds light on how one particular skull ...

A 69-million-year-old skull found in Antarctica belonged to what scientists say is the oldest known modern bird. An early relative of the continent’s ducks and geese, it lived off the Antarctic ...