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

As proof of an ancestor named William Bell's duplicity, the PBS show's host, Henry Louis Gates Jr., presents the actress with ...

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

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 ...

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

It’s possible that further exploration will uncover “the ancestors of ostriches, fowls, neoaves and ducks that may have roamed alongside non-avian dinosaurs.” Sick in the Name of Science ...

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 ...

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

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

From other whistle pigs and similar mammals such as prairie dogs, opossums and hedgehogs, to ducks, frogs, fish and other ... Northeast and Midwest for the badgers used by their Germanic ancestors — ...