A huge dinosaur skull found in southern China appears to belong to an entirely new species, according to a group of paleontologists that studied the specimen. Paleontologists found the fossilized ...

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

Near the end of the age of dinosaurs, a bird resembling today's loons and grebes dove for fish and other prey in the perilous ...

In the icy wilderness of Antarctica, where glaciers now dominate the landscape, scientists have unearthed a fossil that ...

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

Birds that lived among the dinosaurs were barely recognizable ... For instance, the study noted that the skull preserves traces of a slender, pointed beak powered by enhanced jaw muscles, a ...

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