The skull exhibits a long, pointed beak and a brain shape unique among all known birds previously discovered from the ...

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, ...

A wild merganser collected Milwaukee County died from the highly contagious avian flu, the DNR confirmed Friday.

The DNR says the bird had the H5 avian influenza virus. Officials have also received other reports of dead birds, mostly mergansers, along the shoreline in Milwaukee, Racine and Kenosha counties. They ...

In Moscow's Novodevichy Park there's an unusual attraction which has become a regular stop on the city's sightseeing tours.

This finding has shed new light on the evolutionary past of birds and revealed critical information about their survival and ...

A 68-million-year-old Antarctic fossil revealed the oldest known modern bird, Vegavis iaai, a duck-sized diver with traits linking it to today’s waterfowl.

A newly discovered fossil in Antarctica, estimated to be 68 million years old, reveals the oldest known modern bird, Vegavis ...

A skull fossil uncovered in Antarctica may be the oldest modern bird ever found-a creature the size of a mallard […] ...

Vegavis was the size of a mallard but did not have a bill like a duck. It instead had a spear-shaped beak like a loon. Its skeletal structure indicates that it dove for its dinner. "Vegavis almost ...

A 68-million-year-old skull fossil found in Antarctica has revealed the oldest known modern bird, which was likely related to ...