The field of paleo-inspired robotics is opening up a new way to turn back time and studying prehistoric animals.

A Cretaceous Period bird called Vegavis iaai pursuit diving for fish in the shallow ocean off the coast of the Antarctic peninsula, with nautilus-like ammonites and marine reptiles called ...

Near the end of the age of dinosaurs, a bird resembling today's loons and grebes dove for fish and other prey in the perilous ...

The near-complete fossil skull, unearthed on Vega Island near the Antarctic Peninsula, reveals a bird that thrived in the challenging waters off Antarctica roughly 69 million years ago, just three ...

Thanks to a nearly complete fossil skull, scientists now have identified ... lived about 67 million years ago in what is now Belgium. Vegavis was the size of a mallard but did not have a bill ...

Walk around the Dorset coastline and you’ll spot these spiral fossils etched into the cliff faces. Ammonites were molluscs ... considering its tiny size. Scientists believe that woolly ...

Mr Wonfor, who runs Wight Coast Fossils which provides guided tours on the island, said it's particularly rare to find an ammonite with a complete rostrum - the curved projection coming off the ...

Some paleontologists think that fossils recovered from Antarctica are evidence of birds similar to modern geese and ducks that lived alongside the dinosaurs.

Research published today in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology has unveiled a landmark discovery—fossils of the world's ...