Moa, giant ground-dwelling birds that went extinct soon after humans arrived in New Zealand, were herbivorous. And pollen found in clay layers around the fossils show that the parrot lived in a ...

As it turns out, a very surprising state is one of the world's prehistoric places with ancient sea monsters. In the U.S. state of Mississippi, a geologist discovered a vertebra from one of the most ...

The researchers analyzed rare fossils of hatchling birds found in northern Alaska, which offered the earliest evidence of the ...

After 128 years of exploration and fossil excavation, researchers have finally unearthed the skull of Genyornis newtoni.

A remarkable 70-million-year-old dinosaur embryo, discovered perfectly preserved inside its fossilized egg in Missouri, ...

Most people rarely give eggs a second thought—until they hear about one that could rewrite the story of a species or stump ...

The article explores the evolutionary history of snakes, highlighting ten extinct species that showcase their dramatic ...

A. Most, though not all, ornithologists I know believe the ivory-billed woodpecker is extinct. A few claim the giant birds may remain in diminishing remnants of virgin forests of the Southeast.

In ancient Flores, an island in eastern Indonesia, “hobbit”-size humans shared the landscape with an immense bird. At more than five feet tall, the Ice Age stork Leptoptilos robustus would ...

An unexpected Alaskan adventure ...