We report a virtually complete plesiosaur from the Lower Jurassic (∼183 Ma)3 Posidonia Shale of Germany that preserves skin ...

A few fossilized body parts hinted at an enigmatic bird's close ties to waterfowl like ducks and geese. A newfound skull may bolster that idea.

A new and nearly complete skull of Vegavis iaai discovered in Antarctica suggests that modern birds originated before the end ...

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

A recently analyzed near-complete fossil skull found in Antarctica has revealed Vegavis iaai to be the oldest known modern ...

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

A fossil hunter found a lump of prehistoric vomit roughly dated to the time of the mass extinction that wiped out the ...

Two underwater sea lilies were eaten and regurgitated around 66 million years ago. They were preserved as fossilized vomit.

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

A near-perfect fossilized skull discovered in Antarctica reveals the bridge between prehistoric and modern birds, a new study ...

Previous studies have posited that the mass extinction that wiped the dinosaurs ... empirical measurements of sulfur within the related Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) boundary layer, the ...