Isolation allows creatures to thrive as their relatives perish due to the threats present on much larger landmasses ...

A Bizarre Beak And Jaw Built For Power. What the research team discovered is unlike any other known prehistoric bird anatomy. The skull exhibits a combination of traits that point toward both ...

Before the study, the earliest known evidence of birds reproducing in polar regions was from about 47 million years ago, millions of years after an asteroid hit the planet and killed 75 percent of the ...

While fossil trackways are widely used to estimate the speed of extinct animals, especially dinosaurs, new research suggests ...

Prehistoric bird used club-like wings as weapon Date: January 5, 2011 Source: Yale University Summary: Paleontologists have discovered that Xenicibis, a member of the ibis family that lived about ...

For many New Zealanders, the Australian magpie is a familiar, if sometimes vexing, sight. Introduced from Australia in the ...

A Bizarre Beak And Jaw Built For Power. What the research team discovered is unlike any other known prehistoric bird anatomy. The skull exhibits a combination of traits that point toward both ...

Prehistoric Body Theater brings ancient creatures to life through dance in the U.S. premiere of "Ghosts of Hell Creek: Stone ...

Thousands of years ago Britain was home to over a dozen reptiles and amphibians, many now extinct here. One, the prehistoric-looking European pond terrapin, would have been common in wet and damp ...

Of the 350 parrot species alive today, the heaviest is the kakapo, a flightless bird also native to New Zealand. But the extinct parrot, dubbed Heracles inexpectatus, crushes the kakapo’s record ...

Colossal's new AI algorithm can detect the tooth-billed pigeon's calls, helping conservationists locate the lost species.

Notably, the researchers did not find any fossils of the dominant bird group of the Cretaceous period (145 million to 66 million years ago) — enantiornithes, now-extinct birds that typically had ...