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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 ...

Legend says it’s one of only 13 crystal skulls in the world, all possessing the knowledge of the ancient societies where they were found. F.A. Mitchell-Hedges, a British explorer who traveled ...

A 69-million-year-old fossilized skull unearthed in Antarctica could rewrite the history of modern birds. The nearly complete ...

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 ...

If you recall, in 2008’s Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, while fighting Soviets to get at a transdimensional being’s skull, Indiana Jones meets his son, Mutt, and ...

Fossil bird's skull reconstruction reveals a brain made for smelling and eyes made for daylight Date: October 24, 2022 Source: Field Museum Summary: Piecing together the crushed skull of a fossil ...

“Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” has that same kind of hollowness, as if you were watching an action-adventure from someone who had borrowed all of Steven Spielberg’s ...

An Antarctic discovery might offer new insights into the origins of modern birds. The skull, from an ancient relative of ducks and geese known as Vegavis iaai, suggests that the key characteristics of ...

Key aspects of early bird evolution have been difficult to resolve, owing to a lack of suitably preserved fossilized remains. A fossilized skull of a bird that lived during the age of the ...

For more than a century, scientists have been unsuccessfully hunting for skull fossils for the thunder bird species Genyornis newtoni. About 50,000 years ago, these titans, also known as mihirungs ...