Does a duck always look like a duck and quack like a duck? Sixty-six million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period, ...

A 68-million-year-old skull fossil found in Antarctica has revealed the oldest known modern bird, which was likely related to ...

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 ...

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

At that time, it was proposed as an early member of modern - also known as crown - birds that were evolutionarily nested ...

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