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

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 ...

The front and rear flippers ... entities have been excavating fossils pertaining to the mosasaur. They found about 65 percent of the whole-body skeleton, from head to tail.

Some paleontologists think that fossils recovered from Antarctica are ... complete three-dimensional reconstruction of the bird’s head. They found that Vegavis had the toothless beak and brain ...

That's because many of the fossils of the creatures are headless shells that were left behind when they molted, squirming out of their exoskeletons through the head opening as they grew ever ...

Based on the protruding part of the upper jaw bones, museum officials determined the item brought in by Saka was a dolphin’s head and asked him to donate the fossil for its collection.

The fossil was unearthed in the 1950s in a former lignite mining area in the Geiseltal in Germany. It was initially misclassified and thus led a shadowy existence until its rediscovery.

The Ushikawa fossils were initially presented as a humerus bone from the upper arm and the end or head of a femur bone from the leg of a human who had lived more than 20,000 years ago. But in the ...