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

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

When a bullet took her upper beak, Beauty the bald eagle would have starved. A dedicated caregiver and 3D printing changed ...

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

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

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

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

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

THE long-lost forefather of the beloved duck and goose has been discovered, after outliving the hardy dinosaurs. The feathered creature thrived during the Cretaceous period, and continued to do so ...

A rice farm in southern Brazil was just found to be home to the fossil of one of the missing links between the ground-based ...

The world's largest invertebrate remained hidden from humanity until a tantalising glimpse 100 years ago. But it would be ...