A near-perfect fossilized skull discovered in Antarctica reveals the bridge between prehistoric and modern birds, a new study ...
The skull, from an ancient relative of ducks and geese known as Vegavis iaai, suggests that the key characteristics of modern birds were already in place 69 million years ago. Birds evolved from ...
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.
The new skull exhibits a long, pointed beak and a brain shape unique among all known birds previously discovered from the ...
The new skull exhibits a long, pointed beak and a brain shape unique among all known birds previously discovered from the ...
Sixty-six million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period, an asteroid impact near the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico ...
Antarctica may have been a refuge for early waterfowl ancestors, shielding them from the mass extinction that wiped out the dinosaurs.
LA had planned to take substantially less from the iconic Eastern Sierra lake this winter. The decision is a blow to ...
A new study by Ohio University found an important fossil of the oldest known modern bird, which lived in Antarctica when ...
Near the end of the age of dinosaurs, a bird resembling today's loons and grebes dove for fish and other prey in the perilous ...