A new study by Ohio University found an important fossil of the oldest known modern bird, which lived in Antarctica when ...

Scientists say a new, never-before seen species of human ancestor roamed the Earth as recently as one million years ago.

Vegavis, an ancient bird from Antarctica, identified as the oldest modern bird ancestor with specialized fish-hunting adaptations.

The Late Cretaceous modern (crown) bird,Vegavis iaai, pursuit diving for fish in the shallow ocean off the coast of the Antarctic peninsula, with ammonites and plesiosaurs forcompany. 66 million years ...

A Georgia deer hunter harvested a 20-year-old doe in Lowdown County in November 2024. It's likely the oldest whitetail deer ever killed in the state.

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 ...