Scientists have uncovered the oldest known fossilized animal sperm, found preserved in a 50-million-year-old cocoon from Antarctica. This unprecedented finding pushes back the timeline of such ...

Paleontologists have found the first complete skull of a controversial prehistoric bird. Known as Vegavis iaai, the bird thrived in late-Cretaceous Antarctica, then a tropical paradise. About a ...

A rare fossil discovery in Antarctica has upended scientific understanding of ancient marine reptiles. Buried beneath 68 million years of sediment, a soft-shelled egg as big as a football has ...

The fossil examined in the study, collected during a 2011 expedition by the Antarctic Peninsula Paleontology Project, was found encased in rock that dated back 68.4 to 69.2 million years and ...

A peculiar fossil egg, dubbed \"The Thing,\" discovered decades ago in Antarctica, has been identified as belonging to a ...

Antarctica, far from the ... V. iaai was first described about 20 years ago, from an Antarctic fossil dating to between 66 million and 68 million years ago.

Omaha’s Durham Museum is inviting visitors to take a trip back to 200 million years ago when Antarctica was home to crocodile-sized amphibians and rhinoceros-sized dinosaurs.

East Antarctica is the largest ice sheet on Earth. Alone, it holds enough frozen water to raise global sea levels by a whopping 52 meters. As our planet warms, understanding how this colossal ice ...

Known as Vegavis iaai, the bird thrived in late-Cretaceous Antarctica, then a tropical paradise. About a million years before the asteroid that wiped out 75% of life on Earth, it went extinct.

A 68-million-year-old skull fossil found in Antarctica has revealed the oldest known modern bird, which was likely related to the waterfowl that live by lakes and oceans today, according to new ...