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 ...

Fossils of 'Early Modern Bird' Reveal It Existed Before the Asteroid Strike That Likely Wiped Out the Dinosaurs When a ...

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

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.

Most notably, a long, spear-shaped beak. "I think it gave some people pause," Clarke said. "They expected [the skull] to be more duck or goose like." Clarke notes that the ducks and geese of today are ...

said it’s unusual for the outbreak to last as long as this one has. He also said the disease is evolving, and as Texas nears three years of the bird flu, he wonders what the effect will be in ...

The females, however, have yellow beaks. Green Wood Hoopoe: This beautiful black bird with a green and purple sheen has a long decurved red beak and red feet. Rose-ringed Parakeet: Found in woodlands, ...

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 ...

In addition to setting a new waterbody record for Lady Bird, Pipkin’s 14-pounder is the third Legacy ShareLunker (and the heaviest so far) of the 2025 season, according to Texas Parks and ... The bass ...

Dead from bird flu. And it wasn't just elephant seals. There were terns – with their yellow beaks and black heads – stumbling about having seizures on the sand. The scene played out again and ...