Certain birds that gave rise to today’s ducks and geese found sanctuary in Antarctica during a mass extinction event 66 ...

The discovery of a 69-million-year-old bird fossil is reshaping our understanding of avian evolution.

A Cretaceous-era skull found on Vega Island, Antarctica, has been confirmed as a member of the same order as ducks and geese, ...

In their latest study that analyses fossil pollens before the boundary ... However, intensifying volcanic activity closer to the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary significantly disrupted it.

Approximately 66 million years ago, a catastrophic event occurred that reshaped life on Earth in dramatic ways: the K-T extinction event. Named after the boundary between the Cretaceous (K) and ...

The new skull exhibits a long, pointed beak and a brain shape unique among all known birds previously discovered from the ...

Fossil evidence suggests a temperate climate with lush vegetation, possibly serving as an incubator for the earliest members ...

Fossil evidence suggests a temperate climate with lush vegetation, possibly serving as an "incubator" for the earliest members of the group that now includes ducks and geese. The new research ...

This is a well-written important paper on the recovery of fauna and flora following the end-Permian extinction event in several continental sites in northern China. The convincing conclusion, a rapid ...

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

The tip of a right flipper of the new plesiosaur fossil, with two scales along the trailing edge. A new study suggests that some plesiosaurs, in addition to fishy scales on their flippers ...