Scientists have made an exciting discovery—a 69-million-year-old fossil found in Antarctica is the oldest known modern bird.

The dorsal and caudal vertebrae of the Sihui Museum specimen Photos: Courtesy of a research team led by Xing Lida from the China University of Geosciences (Beijing) Chinese and Canadian academicians ...

In 1924 an Australian anthropologist and anatomist, Raymond Dart, acquired a block of calcified sediment from a limestone ...

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New research shows that a fossilized plant from the Green River Formation is even stranger than scientists originally thought ...

For the first time, scientists have completed an in-depth analysis of fossilized soft tissues from a plesiosaur ...

A 69 million-year-old skull fossil discovered in Antarctica is an ancient relative of geese and ducks, making it the oldest ...

In the heart of San Francisco, California, there’s a place where the curious and the quirky collide, where the past meets the ...

Earliest inner solar system planetesimals shaped the inventory of moderately volatile elements in terrestrial planets.

The discovery of a 69-million-year-old bird fossil is reshaping our understanding of avian evolution.