For decades, scientists have wondered at the taxonomy of Vegavis iaai—an ancient avian specimen that lived in what is now ...

Researchers emphasize that this fossil confirms that cerapodan dinosaurs underwent diversification well before the Cretaceous ...

A team of paleontologists from the Natural History Museum in the U.K., the University of Birmingham, also in the U.K., and ...

Scientists uncovered a 149-million-year-old bird fossil in southeastern China with ... when dinosaurs roamed the earth and is among the oldest birds ever discovered, along with the similarly ...

A newly discovered fossil in Antarctica has provided evidence of the oldest known modern bird—a species closely related to today’s waterfowl, about the size of a mallard duck, according to a ...

A short-tailed bird fossil, stated to be the oldest dating back about 150 million years, was discovered by Chinese scientists in east China’s Fujian Province shedding a new light on the origin ...

(CNN) — 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 fossil, discovered in November 2023 ... according to the China Central Television (CCTV). The oldest bird currently widely recognized is Archaeopteryx, discovered in Germany and dating ...

Near the end of the age of dinosaurs, a bird resembling ... Thanks to a nearly complete fossil skull, scientists now have identified this waterfowl as the oldest-known member of the lineage ...

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 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 ...