The study's findings show mergansers arrived in the New Zealand region at least seven million years ago from the Northern Hemisphere, in a separate colonisation event to that which led to the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. GrrlScientist writes about evolution, ecology, behavior and health. On a remote island, a duck arrived hundreds of thousands of ...

During a joint expedition to the mountains of western Cuba, researchers uncovered a rare complete bone from a bird that lived between 18,000 and 11,000 years ago. The humerus, pulled from a ...

Europe's most endangered ducks are back on track. According to the European Commission, the Spanish Marbled ducks' population has more than quadrupled since 2009, going from a mere 20 breeding pairs ...

A new University of Otago-led study has uncovered the origins of a mysterious lineage of mergansers in Aotearoa New Zealand. Mergansers are riverine and coastal fish-eating ducks predominantly found ...