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, ...

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 ...

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.