Somewhere in the frozen plains of southwestern Russia, a 40-foot circle of mammoth bones and tusks has stood for over 24,000 ...
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 ...
Bones of a 13,500-year-old woolly mammoth were uncovered during a dig 36 years after they were discovered under the garage of ...
The fossilized skull of a bird called Vegavis, which lived in the Antarctic some 68.7 million years ago, confirms it was an early member of the waterfowl group. However, the skull also suggests ...
The new skull exhibits a long, pointed beak and a brain shape unique among all known birds previously discovered from the Mesozoic Era. The Late Cretaceous modern (crown) bird, Vegavis iaai, is diving ...
Deborah Smith-Fiola, Agriculture and Natural Resources Agent, Ocean County George Hamilton, Extension Specialist in Pest Management, Rutgers University James Lashomb, Extension Specialist in ...