Evolutionary cousins of chickens and ducks roamed the earth with dinosaurs more than 65 million years ago, according to a new study that runs counter to a key assumption about when birds got their ...

Paleontologists have found the first complete skull of a controversial prehistoric bird. Known as Vegavis iaai, the bird thrived in late-Cretaceous Antarctica, then a tropical paradise. About a ...

Evolutionary cousins of chickens and ducks roamed the Earth with dinosaurs more than 65 millions years ago, according to a new study that runs counter to a key assumption about when birds got their ...

A recently analyzed near-complete fossil skull found in Antarctica has revealed Vegavis iaai to be the oldest known modern ...

A near-perfect fossilized skull discovered in Antarctica reveals the bridge between prehistoric and modern birds, a new study has found. The fossil is a specimen of a species called Vegavis iaai, ...

A newly unearthed 69-million-year-old fossil is shaking up long-standing debates among paleontologists about when modern birds emerged. The discovery of a nearly complete skull from the extinct bird ...

An illustration of the Vegavis iaai diving for fish off the coast of the Antarctic peninsula. Mark Witton, 2025. The Chicxulub impactor smashed into Earth, wiped out around 75 percent of our planet’s ...

The discovery of a remarkably near-complete fossil skull of the earliest known modern bird may help settle a long-standing debate about the evolutionary history of our feathered friends. The specimen ...

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The fossilized 69-million-year-old skull of the oldest known modern bird has been discovered. The early relatives of ducks and geese lived in Antarctica at around the same time Tyrannosaurus rex ...

Figure 1: The half of the Vegavis iaai concretion that preserves most of MLP 93-I-3-1. Figure 4: Histological section from the MLP 92-I-3-1 radius viewed with polarizing microscopy. The following ...