Scientists have found what could be the largest "terror bird" ever known, from a fossil in Colombia's Tatacoa Desert, according to the journal Papers in Palaeontology ...

Birds are the most diverse land vertebrates. Some studies suggest their earliest diversification dates back to the Jurassic ...

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 ...

The fossil suggests that modern birds evolved before the dinosaur-killing asteroid, perhaps in Antarctica Margherita Bassi Daily Correspondent An illustration of the Vegavis iaai diving for fish ...

There are about 40 specimens of the bird in the Geiseltal Collection. "Diatryma was probably a rare guest in the Geisetal. Otherwise, there would probably be more fossils," concludes Stache.

Paleontologists marveled at dinosaur fossils with stomach contents identifiable as the bones of lizards and mammals, and at bird fossils containing plant seeds. Liaoning is situated within a vast ...