A team led by paleontologist Shorouq Al-Ashqar of Mansoura University and the American University in Egypt has given the ...

The Fossil Vertebrate and Ichnofossil Collection in the University of Colorado Museum of Natural History has focused on the Paleogene fossil record of the Rocky Mountain region, but our collections ...

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, ...

Learn how the extinction of dinosaurs around 66 million years ago caused seeds to grow larger, filling in an important piece ...

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

Today, the fossilized remains of these creatures are buried beneath a conspicuous layer of sediment or rock that geologists call the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg ... to the collapse of global ecosystems ...

Fossil evidence suggests this incredible creature measured ... The discovery helped paleontologists refine their knowledge of evolutionary processes following the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event ...

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 ...