A new study in Nature describing a fossil of a nearly complete and intact bird skull from Antarctica is shedding light on the early evolution of today’s birds and avian diversity at the end of the Age ...

Certain birds that gave rise to today’s ducks and geese found sanctuary in Antarctica during a mass extinction event 66 ...

LODI, Ohio — On the inside of a Lodi barn, the owner of Earth Song ... up here and we have rare to see a dead one." In the western part of the Ohio nearly 10 million birds mostly chickens ...

Team led by National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at Ohio University’s Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine ...

After a dinosaur-killing asteroid struck the Earth near the Yucatán Peninsula ... However, modern birds are very rare in the fossil record from before the end-Cretaceous extinction, and more ...

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, ...

It’s fun to conceptualise like this, and set the human story within the grand perspective of Earth’s history. But there’s a ...

Since the first farmers tilled the soil more than 10,000 years ago, the plow has been the essential tool of human survival.

Globally, the opportunity to see cranes in large groups is exceptionally rare. For bird-watchers ... If it falls, cranes will vanish from the Earth, just like the dinosaurs.” ...