making them among the longest-lived bird species. The ocean quahog clam can live for more than 500 years, making it one of the longest-living animals. Bowhead whales can reach ages over 200 years ...

Species within these groups often live over 30 years. The longest-living individual bird recorded in the wild is a Laysan ...

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

A 69 million-year-old skull fossil discovered in Antarctica is an ancient relative of geese and ducks, making it the oldest ...