Global warming is producing a rapid loss of plant species—according to estimates, roughly 600 plant species have died out ...

This finding has shed new light on the evolutionary past of birds and revealed critical information about their survival and ...

New research has identified the extent to which human colonization and hunting contributed to the extinction of New Zealand's ...

As more and more "historical" checklists are added to the platform, birds we've lost now mingle with those still hanging on.

A 68-million-year-old Antarctic fossil revealed the oldest known modern bird, Vegavis iaai, a duck-sized diver with traits linking it to today’s waterfowl.

A newly discovered fossil in Antarctica, estimated to be 68 million years old, reveals the oldest known modern bird, Vegavis ...

"Few birds are as likely to start as many arguments among paleontologists as 'vegavis,'" said professor Christopher Torres.

A skull fossil uncovered in Antarctica may be the oldest modern bird ever found-a creature the size of a mallard […] ...

A man has caused minor damage at St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican after jumping onto the main altar and knocking over 19th ...

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

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

The early relatives of ducks and geese lived in Antarctica at around the same time Tyrannosaurus rex dominated North America ...