ZME Science on MSN8d
This 69-Million-Year-Old Duck-like Skull Reveals How Modern Birds Survived the Dinosaurs
The discovery of a 69-million-year-old bird fossil is reshaping our understanding of avian evolution.
Smithsonian Magazine on MSN1d
Scientists Discover ‘Groundbreaking’ Jurassic Fossil That Could Overhaul the Evolutionary History of Birds
Researchers in China found Baminornis zhenghensis, which lived at roughly the same time as the famous Archaeopteryx but ...
Tucson Weekly8d
Meet a dinosaur at day camp
Rodeo season is quickly approaching. Every Tucson parent knows what that means: a day off of school for the kids. : Keep them ...
Phys.org on MSN7d
Cretaceous fossil from Antarctica reveals earliest modern bird
Sixty-six million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period, an asteroid impact near the Yucat n Peninsula of Mexico triggered the extinction of all known non-bird dinosaurs. But for the early ...
CNN on MSN9d
Fossil of oldest known modern bird discovered in Antarctica
A 68-million-year-old skull fossil found in Antarctica has revealed the oldest known modern bird, which was likely related to ...
Texas Standard10h
The ancestor of modern ducks and geese may have waddled alongside the dinosaurs
The age of the dinosaurs may conjure images of large, fearsome reptiles in the minds of many – but those were far from the ...
Cape and Islands NPR2d
A rare visitor from Europe
I thought it might have been a female Ring-necked Duck, but a view through my spotting scope showed the characteristic ...
CNN9d
Fossil of oldest known modern bird discovered in Antarctica
Birds that lived among the dinosaurs were barely recognizable when ... “Antarctica at 69 million years ago didn’t look like it did today. It was actually forested. It was a cool, temperate ...