This evidence comes from a nearly complete, 69-million-year-old skull of an extinct bird, named Vegavis iaai.  The fossil ...

Antarctica may have been a refuge for early waterfowl ancestors, shielding them from the mass extinction that wiped out the dinosaurs.

While it's tragic and alarming to see a massive die-off, it's not uncommon for birds that travel in such large populations.

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 complete fossil skull, ...

A few fossilized body parts hinted at an enigmatic bird's close ties to waterfowl like ducks and geese. A newfound skull may bolster that idea.

Some paleontologists think that fossils recovered from Antarctica are evidence of birds similar to modern geese and ducks that lived alongside the dinosaurs.

Exeter birdwatchers are forever on patrol. Not only is there a veritable paparazzi squad that appears – like magic – every ...

Dozens of dead and sick birds are washing ashore on Lake Michigan beaches in Illinois and Wisconsin, suspected of having the bird flu, according to state officials.

Sixty-six million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period, an asteroid impact near the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico triggered the extinction of all known non-bird dinosaurs. But for the early ...

The outbreak started in December and has now spread from a few reports in the suburbs to hundreds in the city, along Lake ...

The overwhelming number of good, but certainly not great, college basketball teams has made an already tricky task of voting in the Associated Press Top 25 poll an even more diabolical adventure each ...