A fossil from Antarctica unveils the oldest-known modern bird, Vegavis iaai, dating back 69 million years. In Chile, ...

In 1992, a paleontologist unearthed the fossil of a prehistoric bird called "Vegavis iaai" in Antarctica and hypothesized that it was an early relative of today's ducks and geese. However, because the ...

Ancient bird Vegavis iaai, unearthed near Antarctica, holds the record as oldest lineage ancestor of all current birds. Fossil predates asteroid strike by three million years. Scientific community ...

A trip to a local pond brings a whole new respect knowing the beaked inhabitants evolved when T-Rexes were still around.

By Alimat Aliyeva Scientists have revealed that a 69-million-year-old animal skull discovered in Antarctica belongs to ...

In the icy wilderness of Antarctica, where glaciers now dominate the landscape, scientists have unearthed a fossil that ...

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Emily Kwong and Regina Barber of Short Wave about the fluid dynamics of crowds, an early fossil of a modern bird and new data on how people's moods change through the day.

SpaceX is set to send up the 13th launch from the Space Coast this year on Friday afternoon. A Falcon 9 rocket on the Starlink 12-9 mission carrying 21 Starlink satellites is aiming for liftoff at ...

Scientists measured a chorus wave emerging from an unexpected place, and confirmed a key piece of a theory about how these ...