“This skull is important to us ... there are fewer carnivores in an ecosystem than other animals such as herbivores. (For instance, you’re more likely to see a squirrel or a deer on a hike ...

More than 500 exceptionally preserved fossils are offering new clues about the evolution of Florida's animals and landscape.

Among these birds were flightless giants like Diatryma, a herbivorous bird with a large beak. The completely preserved skull was initially misidentified as belonging to a crocodile. Michael Stache ...

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 ...

a herbivore with a gigantic beak which stood around 4.6 feet high. For many years no one knew that an almost completely preserved skull of Diatryma was part of the collection. "The find was ...

“This skull is important to us ... there are fewer carnivores in an ecosystem than other animals such as herbivores. (For instance, you’re more likely to see a squirrel or a deer on a hike ...