Some are just little curiosities, like Ironeye's face being fully modeled from the front. Zullie also notes that the ...

New details have come to light more than two months after a 29-foot humpback whale was found stranded near the South Carolina ...

A 29-foot-long humpback whale found dead on a South Carolina beach suffered a horrific death when its head was bashed by a boat, an investigation has revealed.

The Chicago Archaeopteryx provides rare 3D insights into skull evolution, soft tissue structure, and the first evidence of ...

Goetze: Our region’s woodpeckers may be praised for some things while also maligned for perceived or actual damage caused.

Paleontologists in Canada have made a groundbreaking discovery after identifying a previously unknown soft tissue structure in the cheek region of several dinosaur species, potentially reshaping ...

A new analysis of a pigeon-sized Archaeopteryx fossil in the collection of the Field Museum in Chicago is revealing an array of previously unknown features of the earliest-known bird, providing ...

Scientists have revealed that a 69-million-year-old animal skull discovered in Antarctica belongs to the oldest known modern bird. This bird, an ancient relative of ducks and geese, lived on the ...

Scientists now have a new waypoint on this journey, thanks to the discovery of a fossil skull from an ancient bird known as Vegavis iaai. While the species itself was named more than 20 years ago, its ...

A near complete skull fossil found in Antarctica has revealed the oldest known modern bird — a mallard duck-size creature related to the waterfowl that live by lakes and oceans today ...

But previous fossils of the bird didn’t include much of the skull. That hampered scientists’ ability to assess where exactly V. iaai fits in birds’ family tree — whether it was a primitive ...

(CNN) — A near complete skull fossil found in Antarctica has revealed the oldest known modern bird — a mallard duck-size creature related to the waterfowl that live by lakes and oceans today ...