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 ...

A newly discovered fossil in Antarctica has provided evidence of the oldest known modern bird—a species closely related to today’s waterfowl, about the size of a mallard duck, according to a ...

Scientists uncovered a 149-million-year-old bird fossil in southeastern China with ... when dinosaurs roamed the earth and is among the oldest birds ever discovered, along with the similarly ...

This tiny bird sculpture was created 40,000 years ago by early humans in Europe who carved the key animals in their lives.

World's oldest bird fossils of Baminornis zhenghensis Photo: CCTV Chinese scientists have discovered one of the world's oldest bird fossils of Baminornis zhenghensis in East China's Fujian ...

An ancient cerapodan dinosaur fossil discovered in Morocco has been identified as the oldest of its kind, shedding light on ...

Before Baminornis, the oldest known short-tailed bird fossil was Confuciusornis from the Jehol Biota (the ecosystem of northeastern China between 133 and 120 million years ago), dating to about 125 ...

Although scientists have uncovered a number of transitional fossils of bird-like animals ... Archaeopteryx is about 150 million years old, which makes it arguably one of the oldest truly bird-like ...

They hopped around on two legs like modern birds. "Ornithischian" is a term ... due to a lack of rocks from that period in which to look for fossils. The fossil uncovered by the team, a femur ...

They belonged to the ornithischians, the "bird-hipped" dinosaurs ... that this “specimen represents the world’s oldest cerapodan.” The fossil dates back approximately 168 million years ...