"Longipteryx is one of my favorite fossil birds, because it's just so weird— it has this long skull, and teeth only at the tip of its beak," says Jingmai O'Connor, associate curator of fossil ...

For decades, scientists have wondered at the taxonomy of Vegavis iaai— an ancient avian specimen that lived in what is now ...

N o birds alive today have teeth. But that wasn't always the case; many early fossil birds had beaks full of sharp, tiny teeth. In a paper in the journal Cretaceous Research, scientists have ...

A 68-million-year-old skull fossil found in Antarctica has revealed the oldest known modern bird, which was likely related to ...

THE long-lost forefather of the beloved duck and goose has been discovered, after outliving the hardy dinosaurs. The ...

With its glaciers and sub-zero temperatures, Antarctica hardly seems like a place of refuge. However, the now icy continent ...

Humans do not have tails, but do we have “what it takes” for a tail? Hens don’t have teeth, but they have the genes for it. With atavism, it is as if our genomes serve as archives of our ...

So far, the oldest-known bird fossil is the famous Archaeopteryx ... long legs and three toes tipped with claws; its jawbone and teeth were like those of a small dinosaur, and its extended spine ...

Winter poses several challenges for birds. Scarce food supplies and limited water are just a few obvious challenges for nearly all of them. Extremely cold temperatures, strong winds, driving snow ...

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 ...