For the 24 th year, the Schiele Museum of Natural History wants to help visitors dig into their interest in fossils. The ...

The skull, from an ancient relative of ducks and geese known as Vegavis iaai, suggests that the key characteristics of modern birds were already in place 69 million years ago. Birds evolved from ...

Sixty-six million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period, an asteroid impact near the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico ...

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

Paleontologists have been arguing whether modern birds developed before or after the infamous asteroid for decades. Now, a ...

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

Sharks have ruled the Earth’s oceans for 400 million years and recent research on fossilized shark teeth has led to the ...

Two days before being admitted to the ER, the man had visited his regular doctor, who revealed that the patient had elevated ...

A recently analyzed near-complete fossil skull found in Antarctica has revealed Vegavis iaai to be the oldest known modern bird, according to a study published in Nature.

Around 50,000 years ago, North America was home to a diverse array of megafauna. Mammoths roamed the tundra, while towering ...