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 ...

A 69 million-year-old skull fossil discovered in Antarctica is an ancient relative of geese and ducks, making it the oldest ...

A new study in Nature describing a fossil of a nearly complete and intact bird skull from Antarctica is shedding light on the early evolution of ...

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 ...

PBS Nova explained how a small terrestrial bird was able to survive the devastating asteroid that caused a mass extinction ...

The Jurassic franchise has given audiences countless memorable moments since the release of its first film Jurassic Park in 1993.

In this forest thick with trees up to 600 years old lives the southernmost population of the California condor (Gymnogyps ...

Chile's pristine, dark desert skies, world-renowned for astronomy, are at risk of being outshined by urban and industrial ...

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 ...

During a three-year probe, the watchdog for charities in England and Wales discovered just 8 per cent of the almost ...

Vinyl aficionados, assemble: the full list of releases for Record Store Day 2025 has been unveiled – with exclusive vinyl set ...