The new skull exhibits a long, pointed beak and a brain shape unique among all known birds previously discovered from the Mesozoic Era.

The near-complete fossil skull, unearthed on Vega Island near the Antarctic Peninsula, reveals a bird that thrived in the ...

The new skull exhibits a long, pointed beak and a brain shape unique among all known birds previously discovered from the ...

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

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

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 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 ...

Credit: Jonathan Chen / CC BY-SA 4.0 A massive Columbian mammoth skull has been unearthed at a sand and gravel site in ... The newly discovered mammoth is estimated to be between 18 and 20 years old ...

The fossilized remains belong to Cosmopolitodus hastalis – an extinct mackerel shark closely related to the modern great ...