Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Paleontologists have found the first complete skull of a controversial prehistoric bird. Known as Vegavis iaai, the bird thrived ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. yellow arrow pointing at a fossil A prehistoric bird that lived and died 120 million years ago has presented forensic ...

A major gap in South Korea's prehistoric record has been filled with the discovery of Onggwanoolithus aphaedoensis, the first ...

A bird brain from the age of dinosaurs reveals the roots of avian intelligence, according to a new study. The "one of a kind" fossil discovery could transform our understanding of how the unique ...

Birds descended from the dinosaurs, but researchers have known relatively little about how the bird's brain took shape over millions of years. A... Small fossil has big implications for bird brain ...

An artist’s depiction of ancient albatrosses harassing a pelagornithid — with its fearsome toothed beak — as penguins frolic in the oceans around Antarctica 50 million years ago. UC Berkeley Twitter ...

Ever wonder how saber-toothed cats and other extinct creatures behaved? Well, a team of scientists unearthed ancient footprints that offer insight into how various prehistoric animals lived as far ...

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KIMBERLY, Ore. – A paleontological discovery has been made in central and eastern Oregon, offering new insights into prehistoric times. According to officials at the John Day Fossil Beds Monument in ...

Where it lives: Indonesia, Papua New Guinea and northeastern Australia What it eats: Fruit, seeds, fungi, insects, snails, fish, frogs, small birds, small mammals and carrion Why it's awesome: The ...