NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Emily Kwong and Regina Barber of Short Wave about the fluid dynamics of crowds, an early fossil of a modern bird and new data on how people's moods change through the day.

Ancient bird Vegavis iaai, unearthed near Antarctica, holds the record as oldest lineage ancestor of all current birds. Fossil predates asteroid strike by three million years. Scientific community ...

Paleontologists have been arguing whether modern birds developed before or after the infamous asteroid for decades. Now, a ...

In the icy wilderness of Antarctica, where glaciers now dominate the landscape, scientists have unearthed a fossil that ...

SNP accused of squandering money on jail akin to a ‘luxury resort or nature reserve’ after costs surge from £100m estimate ...

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

A trip to a local pond brings a whole new respect knowing the beaked inhabitants evolved when T-Rexes were still around.

Experts said it raises new questions about wider spread and the difficulty of controlling infections in animals and the people who work closely with them.

A new study by Ohio University found an important fossil of the oldest known modern bird, which lived in Antarctica when ...

A recently analyzed near-complete fossil skull found in Antarctica has revealed Vegavis iaai to be the oldest known modern bird, according to a study published in Nature.

Vegavis, an ancient bird from Antarctica, identified as the oldest modern bird ancestor with specialized fish-hunting adaptations.

The Big Farmland Bird Count (BFBC), an important annual event for monitoring farmland bird populations, returns this week, ...