Although the egg is resistant to slow, evenly distributed pressure, it is vulnerable to sharp, concussive pressure. It has to be. Neonatal chicks weighing a tenth of a pound peck their way out. Just 5 ...

Its bizarre beak makes more sense upside down ... The house finch outside your window is a tiny and beautifully adapted living dinosaur. A duck on your local pond looks and sounds very much ...

It's incredible to think how many giant beasts have roamed the land throughout Earth's 4.5 billion years. Today, we certainly have some impressive creatures living alongside us. The Antarctic blue ...

A newly studied Vegavis iaai skull from Antarctica confirms that modern bird lineages, like ducks and geese, were evolving alongside non-avian dinosaurs. This study supports Vegavis’ placement in the ...

Near the end of the age of dinosaurs, a bird resembling today’s loons ... Vegavis was the size of a mallard but did not have a bill like a duck. It instead had a spear-shaped beak like a loon. Its ...

Female Hooded Mergansers like this one, photographed by James Fatemi, often lay their eggs in the nests of other individuals of their own species—or in the nests of Wood Ducks. As a result ... and ...

Japan could be the first country to become extinct due to low birth rate Donghao Wang, a paleontologist at the China University of Geosciences, explained where the remains of this dinosaur species ...

They belong to the Anomoepus scambus, a dinosaur that moved on two 50-centimetre-long legs, with a short neck, a chunky body and a small head with a beak. “It was a plant-eating dinosaur that ...