The age of the dinosaurs may conjure images of large, fearsome reptiles in the minds of many – but those were far from the ...

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

"Few birds are as likely to start as many arguments among paleontologists as 'vegavis,'" said professor Christopher Torres.

This evidence comes from a nearly complete, 69-million-year-old skull of an extinct bird, named Vegavis iaai. The fossil is ...

The skull, from an ancient relative of ducks and geese known as Vegavis iaai, suggests that the key characteristics of modern birds were already in place 69 million years ago. Birds evolved from ...

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 ...

But the early ancestors of today’s waterfowl survived that mass extinction ... possibly serving as an "incubator" for the ...

When you think "duck," you might picture mallard ducks. According to Britannica, the wild mallard is "the ancestor of all domestic ducks." The mallard was first domesticated in China about 2,000 ...

Antarctica may have been a refuge for early waterfowl ancestors, shielding them from the mass extinction that wiped out the dinosaurs.