A 69-Million-Year Evolutionary Mystery: Scientists Discover Oldest Modern Bird
Does a duck always look like a duck and quack like a duck? Sixty-six million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period, ...
Trump Firings Impact ‘Front Line of Surveillance’ for Bird Flu Outbreak
While the virus continues to spread, the White House is cutting employees who coordinate testing for the virus ...
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Jurassic fossil discovery in China sheds new light on origin of birds
Chinese scientists have unearthed the oldest short-tailed bird fossil, dating back about 150 million years, in east China's ...
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Earliest modern bird lived in Antarctica 69 million years ago
Certain birds that gave rise to today’s ducks and geese found sanctuary in Antarctica during a mass extinction event 66 ...
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Quail-sized feathered dinosaur may be the earliest known bird
Archaeopteryx, long considered the earliest fossil bird, could be knocked off its perch by Baminornis zhenghensis, which ...
1st LD: Jurassic fossil discovery in east China sheds new light on origin of birds
Chinese scientists have unearthed the oldest short-tailed bird fossil, dating back about 150 million years, in east ...
66 million years ago, Antarctica was lush, temperate, and home to the oldest modern bird and T-Rex
A recently analyzed near-complete fossil skull found in Antarctica has revealed Vegavis iaai to be the oldest known modern ...
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Earth’s first waterfowl may have lived in Antarctica 69 million years ago
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.
After the asteroid, the earliest bird ancestors thrived in Antarctica
With its glaciers and sub-zero temperatures, Antarctica hardly seems like a place of refuge. However, the now icy continent ...
A warning for pet owners about the bird flu
There have been twenty cases of bird flu confirmed in domestic cats in the US ...
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Everything You Want to Know About Dinosaur Sexual Anatomy and Reproduction, From Their Genitalia to How They Laid Eggs
While paleontologists can be confident that all non-avian dinosaurs had cloacae, the anatomy of dinosaur phalluses and clitorises is a total mystery. The vast diversity of dinosaur shapes and ...