The Big Story: June 9, 2025

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An illustration of Cretaceous Period birds with other dinosaurs from the same time period in the background. A paper in the journal Science documents the earliest-known example of birds nesting in the polar regions. (Illustration by Gabriel Ugueto)
An illustration of Cretaceous Period birds with other dinosaurs from the same time period in the background. A paper in the journal Science documents the earliest-known example of birds nesting in the polar regions. (Illustration by Gabriel Ugueto)

A multi-university team found that modern birds were nesting in the Arctic in the Cretaceous period. That work scrambles previously known timelines about when birds began reproducing in the polar regions. Read More …

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