Fossils of the world’s oldest megaraptorid and the first-ever carcharodontosaurs in Australia have been discovered, ...

Some were the size of a dog. Others were as large as polar bears. A newly-discovered fossil of the ferocious hyaenodont is ...

“After being properly prepared, it became evident that (the new species was) part of a rare group of herbivorous/omnivorous crocodyliforms from the Early Cretaceous of Gondwana (around 120 million ...

Fossils are providing more and more clues about how dinosaurs attracted one another and reproduced, which contributed to ...

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, ...

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

A newly discovered fossil provides strong evidence that modern birds lived alongside dinosaurs. The 69-million-year-old skull ...

Among the many unique qualities of this long-extinct Antarctic bird, it seems to have been the earliest creature that could ...

In a nutshell A newly discovered 69-million-year-old bird skull from Antarctica proves that modern birds were already diverse ...

Scientists have made an exciting discovery—a 69-million-year-old fossil found in Antarctica is the oldest known modern bird.

There are ducks and dinosaurs. Skulls and robots, a sleek gold painted swan and small globe. On another shelf in the room is a large Batman statue. Not your style? Well, said Epstein, perhaps a ...

Or was this diversification already well underway during the Age of Dinosaurs ... That's because the Vegavis skull has some decidedly un-ducklike features. Most notably, a long, spear-shaped beak. "I ...