By Sofia QuagliaNewly discovered bone fragments from Alaska suggest birds have been breeding and nesting in the Arctic for at least 73 million years.“Which is kind of crazy, because it's not easy to ...

A major collection of more than 50 bird fossils found in northern Alaska suggest some ancient ancestors of modern birds learned to either adapt to the harsh Arctic winter, or migrate south during the ...

The collection included the remains of several embryos as well as hatchlings. Findings regarding this collection have been published in Science.    Examinations of the fossils indicated that birds ...

Today, about 250 bird species have adapted to thrive at Earth’s poles. Some migrate great distances and only spend the summers there, with 24 hours of light each day.

The researchers analyzed rare fossils of hatchling birds found in northern Alaska, which offered the earliest evidence of the creatures reproducing in a polar region ...

Ancient fossils from Alaska reveal birds nested in the Arctic 73 million years ago, challenging previous assumptions about avian evolution.

Breeding in polar ecosystems presents both opportunities and formidable challenges for over 250 modern bird species. Some, like the Arctic tern, undertake extreme migrations between the poles ...

Next come polar cod, other large fish, seabirds, belugas, and four species of “ice seals.” Some 200 bird species breed in the Arctic, mostly migratory species. Many are threatened by climate ...

How does climate change influence how birds can adjust to different climate conditions worldwide? This is what a recent study published in Nature Communications hopes to address as a team of ...

Scientists and researchers have made some remarkable discoveries in 2022 with a handful of not only new species, but ones that ... on. From Arctic sharks in the ... Province of a bird-like ...