With its glaciers and sub-zero temperatures, Antarctica hardly seems like a place of refuge. However, the now icy continent ...

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

The new skull exhibits a long, pointed beak and a brain shape unique among all known birds previously discovered from the Mesozoic ... by study co-author Dr. Julia Clarke of The University of Texas at ...

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

Antarctica has been called the ‘final frontier’ for humanity’s understanding of life when dinosaurs roamed the planet ...

Certain birds that gave rise to today’s ducks and geese found sanctuary in Antarctica during a mass extinction event 66 ...

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 itself is long, with a pointed beak and a brain shape that is unique among all known birds previously discovered ... 20 years ago by University of Texas at Austin co-author Dr. Julia ...

Julia Clarke, a co-author of the study and a paleontologist from the University of Texas ... a long toothless beak and an enlarged forebrain—just like the one that exists in modern birds.

A new study in Nature describing a fossil of a nearly complete and intact bird skull from Antarctica is shedding light on the ...

The new skull exhibits a long, pointed beak and a brain shape unique among all known birds previously discovered ... of The University of Texas at Austin, and several colleagues.