Certain birds that gave rise to today’s ducks and geese found sanctuary in Antarctica during a mass extinction event 66 ...

A photographer’s Covid-era hobby turned into a four-year project that produced around half a million photos. But one stood out from them all.

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

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

Irish names for goldcrest, Cíorbhuí, ‘yellow crest’, and Caipín dearg, ‘red, glowing cap’, both reference the distinctive crown A resident here, the tiny bird is found in a variety of ...

Paleontologists first described Vegavis 20 years ago, but many were skeptical that it represented a modern or crown bird species. Most modern bird fossils that had been unearthed at that point ...