This extinct species lived in the Tethys Sea region, which is now North Africa ... including mammals, birds and marine species. Rivaling a school bus in length, this ancient snake exemplifies ...

To date, the IUCN Red List describes 164 birds as having gone extinct in the modern age—and ... to wetlands on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea—some went further, to the tropics or to ...

The complete skull has been preserved almost intact: a rarity for any fossil bird, but particularly for one so ancient, making this one of the most significant finds of its kind. The almost perfectly ...