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

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, ...

In a remote mountain cave in Ecuador, hummingbirds were discovered sleeping and nesting together. By Rachel Nuwer Hummingbirds are tiny and delicate, but don’t be fooled: They are among the most ...

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Fossils are providing more and more clues about how dinosaurs attracted one another and reproduced, which contributed to ...

Chinese scientists have unearthed the oldest short-tailed bird fossil, dating back about 150 million years, in east China's ...

FUZHOU, Feb. 13 (Xinhua) -- Chinese scientists have unearthed the oldest short-tailed bird fossil, dating back about 150 ...

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Bone marrow also constantly produces new skeletal stem cells that develop into bone, cartilage, and fat cells, promoting the renewal of your bone cells to maintain a healthy and strong skeleton. Bone ...

总的来说，虽然有的古生物学者把包括始祖鸟在内的所有传统鸟翼类，都称为鸟类。但也有的古生物学者并不认同这种看法，尤其是在严肃层面讨论时，往往会把始祖鸟等恐龙特征较多的排除在外。

The film focuses on a series of hunger strikes organized by those incarcerated at California’s Pelican Bay State Prison, in protest of conditions in highest-security prisons. By Alissa Wilkinson ...