Photo Credit: MARK WITTON Near the end of the age of dinosaurs, a bird resembling today's loons and grebes dove for fish and other prey in the perilous waters off Antarctica. Thanks to a nearly ...

Credit: Mark Witton, 2025. Cretaceous fossils of early bird lineages are rare but important for understanding ecological shifts in bird evolution. One of the oldest known crown birds is Vegavis Iaai, ...

(Credit: Mark Witton 2025) (CN) — Sixty-six million years ago, a catastrophic asteroid impact wiped out all known non-avian dinosaurs, but some birds managed to survive. According to researchers, a ...

The fossilized 69-million-year-old skull of the oldest known modern bird has been discovered. The early relatives of ducks and geese lived in Antarctica at around the same time Tyrannosaurus rex ...

The fossilized 69-million-year-old skull of the oldest known modern bird has been discovered. The early relatives of ducks and geese lived in Antarctica at around the same time Tyrannosaurus rex ...