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.

A new study in Nature describing a fossil of a nearly complete and intact bird skull from Antarctica is shedding light on the early evolution of today’s birds and avian diversity at the end of the Age ...

A 69 million-year-old skull fossil discovered ... The first feature is the upper beak which is clearly a premaxilla bone. Secondly, the forebrain was much larger compared to velociraptors and other ...

The discovery of a 69-million-year-old bird fossil is reshaping our understanding of avian evolution.

"In many ways, Antarctica is the last frontier in humanity's understanding of life in the age of dinosaurs," said Matthew Lamanna, a researcher at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh.

A near-perfect fossilized skull discovered in Antarctica reveals the bridge ... years before the mass extinction that wiped out all non-avian dinosaurs. It has a long pointed beak and a brain shape ...