An Ice Age bird that weighed twice as much as an ostrich was adapted for the water, say a team of researchers who recently studied fossils from creature, which went extinct about 45,000 years ago.

When people arrived on the shores of Aotearoa New Zealand and began to turn the land to their needs, they set in motion great ...

Visit Peru's Talara Tar Seeps today and you'll see a desert, but 15,000 years ago, the area was grassland and forest, roamed by dire wolves and saber-toothed cats. If you had gone for a walk in the ...

From the beaches to the prairies. From the towns and the cities. From the hills of Tallahassee, the people shout with glee, “The Florida scrub jay is the new state bird!” If only this were true. The ...

A 46,000-year-old frozen bird carcass was discovered in Siberian permafrost by fossil hunters who were looking for prehistoric mammoth ivory. The bird looked “like it died just a few days ago,” Love ...