Cheetahs can go from 0 to 60 in an instant, but peregrine falcons dive bomb at over 200 miles per hour, making them the world ...

A Brandt’s cormorant shines with its trademark blue highlights, wispy white feathers and purple sheen while foraging in Santa ...

A newly discovered fossil provides strong evidence that modern birds lived alongside dinosaurs. The 69-million-year-old skull ...

A mostly headless skeleton of a loon-size diving bird emerged from rocks that, at 68 million years old, predated the dinosaur extinction. The species, which scientists named Vegavis iaai ...

A Cretaceous Period bird called Vegavis iaai pursuit diving for fish in the shallow ocean off the coast of the Antarctic peninsula, with nautilus-like ammonites and marine reptiles called ...