Scientists Just Found The Oldest Modern Bird Buried in the Antarctic Ice
For decades, scientists have wondered at the taxonomy of Vegavis iaai—an ancient avian specimen that lived in what is now ...
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Paleontologists Discover Fossil of the Oldest Known Modern Bird—but It Raises More Questions Than It Answers
Paleontologists have been arguing whether modern birds developed before or after the infamous asteroid for decades. Now, a ...
Fossil of oldest known modern bird discovered in Antarctica
A 68-million-year-old skull fossil found in Antarctica has revealed the oldest known modern bird, which was likely related to ...
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Ancient duck-like creature discovered in Antarctica may be the oldest modern bird ever discovered
A new and nearly complete skull of Vegavis iaai discovered in Antarctica suggests that modern birds originated before the end ...
Cretaceous fossil from Antarctica reveals earliest modern bird
Digital reconstruction of the Late Cretaceous (~69 million years old) crown bird Vegavis iaai that was completed following ...
First bird to roam Earth after dinosaurs were killed by asteroid revealed and it’s a relative of much-loved species
THE long-lost forefather of the beloved duck and goose has been discovered, after outliving the hardy dinosaurs. The ...
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Ancient relative of geese is the earliest known modern bird
A newly analysed fossil skull settles a palaeontological debate over Vegavis iaai, confirming it as a relative of ducks and ...
Remarkable Fossil Discovery Hints at Antarctic Origins of All Modern Birds
A near-perfect fossilized skull discovered in Antarctica reveals the bridge between prehistoric and modern birds, a new study ...
69-million-year-old skull found in Antarctica is oldest ‘modern’ bird
The near-complete fossil skull, unearthed on Vega Island near the Antarctic Peninsula, reveals a bird that thrived in the ...
After the asteroid, the earliest bird ancestors thrived in Antarctica
With its glaciers and sub-zero temperatures, Antarctica hardly seems like a place of refuge. However, the now icy continent ...
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Are birds reptiles?
"I would say that any modern biologist would, or should, say that birds are reptiles," Martin Stervander, an evolutionary ...
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Scientists discover skull of oldest known modern bird
The new skull exhibits a long, pointed beak and a brain shape unique among all known birds previously discovered from the ...