Now, a team of researchers has analyzed a 69-million-year-old fossil belonging to the long-extinct bird Vegavis iaai that could put the discussion to rest. As detailed in a study published ...

Examining the bird’s genes could also help researchers ... Then, discover the prehistoric beast called the “Siberian unicorn” whose discovery shocked scientists.

This form of 'prehistoric foreplay' - evidenced by scrape marks in the dusty ground - was similar to that of some modern birds. Some dinosaur species are thought to have evolved elaborate horns ...

The startup behind a Harvard geneticist's quest to revive the wholly mammoth just received a big boost. Colossal Biosciences, co-founded by Harvard's George Church, raised $200 million in Series C ...

I write about the world of biology. South Island takahe—a prehistoric-looking flightless bird endemic to New Zealand's rugged ... [+] landscapes—have become a shining beacon of conservation ...

A nearly-complete, 69million-year-old fossil of the long-extinct bird named Vegavis iaai supports this theory. It was collected during a 2011 expedition by the Antarctic Peninsula Paleontology ...

The 68 million-year-old fossil belongs to an extinct species of bird known as Vegavis iaai that lived at the end of the Cretaceous period, when Tyrannosaurus rex dominated North America and just ...

DNA analysis reveals the big, flightless moa birds ate — and pooped out — 13 kinds of fungi, including ones crucial for New Zealand’s forest ecosystem.

(CNN) — A near complete skull fossil found in Antarctica has revealed the oldest known modern bird — a mallard duck-size creature related to the waterfowl that live by lakes and oceans today ...