Let’s look at the history of this gorgeous bird and how we can help its population recover in its endemic region. Known scientifically as Ardea humbloti, the Madagascar heron was added to the red list ...

On an August afternoon, a conspiracy of golden-crowned sifakas made their way across Andranotsimaty, a settlement inside Loky ...

An intact, fossilized specimen of the world’s largest egg—of any known species ever on Earth—entered the National Geographic ...

For decades, scientists have wondered at the taxonomy of Vegavis iaai— an ancient avian specimen that lived in what is now Antarctica during the late Cretaceous period.

With its glaciers and sub-zero temperatures, Antarctica hardly seems like a place of refuge. However, the now icy continent ...

Theorists, do you like to move it, move it? Well, I hope so because today we are talking about the Madagascar movies! You know, the ones about the zoo animals that end up on Madagascar and hijinks ...

"Few birds are as likely to start as many arguments among paleontologists as 'vegavis,'" said professor Christopher Torres.

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

Certain birds that gave rise to today’s ducks and geese found sanctuary in Antarctica during a mass extinction event 66 ...

Team led by National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at Ohio University’s Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine ...

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, ...

Learn more about Vegavis iaai, an ancient ancestor of modern-day ducks, and one of the earliest modern birds ever discovered.