"Few birds are as likely to start as many arguments among paleontologists as 'vegavis,'" said professor Christopher Torres.

Scientists have made an exciting discovery—a 69-million-year-old fossil found in Antarctica is the oldest known modern bird.

Hundreds of vendors from dozens of countries converged in Tucson, Arizona, for the annual Gem and Mineral Show, where the best and most impressive ...

Digital reconstruction of the Late Cretaceous (~69 million years old) crown bird Vegavis iaai that was completed following ...

Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have analysed the soft tissue from a fossilized plesiosaur for the first time. The results show that the ...

A new study by Ohio University found an important fossil of the oldest known modern bird, which lived in Antarctica when ...

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

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

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

Antarctica may have been a refuge for early waterfowl ancestors, shielding them from the mass extinction that wiped out the dinosaurs.