A near complete skull fossil found in Antarctica has revealed the oldest known modern bird — a mallard duck-size creature related to the waterfowl that live by lakes and oceans today, a new study has ...

WASHINGTON, March 18 (Reuters) - A fossil unearthed in Belgium dubbed the "Wonderchicken" is providing a rare glimpse into the early evolution of modern birds at the twilight of the age of dinosaurs, ...

Researchers have discovered "wonderchicken," a 67-million-year-old fossilized bird they believe is the first "modern bird." Known as Asterioornis, the bird was discovered in a limestone quarry near ...

Argentavis magnificens was so massive it should’ve stayed grounded. Yet, this giant prehistoric bird still ruled the skies of ...

Modern birds capable of flight all have a specialized wing structure called the propatagium without which they could not fly. The evolutionary origin of this structure has remained a mystery, but new ...

The color palette of the birds you see out your window depend on where you live. If you’re far from the Equator, most birds tend to have drab colors, but the closer you are to the tropics, you’ll ...

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The tiny fossil dates to more than 66 million years ago. "This is one of the best-preserved fossil bird skulls of any age." The fossil provides the best evidence yet of when and how the earliest ...

Tens of millions of years ago, a diverse array of bird species soared, swam, and thrived amid their scaly reptile cousins—and set the stage for modern birdlife.

This is an Inside Science story. Just a few million years before an asteroid killed nearly all dinosaurs on Earth, a creature resembling a small albatross with teeth flew through the Cretaceous skies.

The path to flight in modern birds was full of forks, twists and dead ends. Erin Malsbury Tens of millions of years of bird evolution guided some of the most important elements of human-powered flight ...

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