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 ...

A newly studied Vegavis iaai skull from Antarctica confirms that modern bird lineages, like ducks and geese, were evolving ...

A few fossilized body parts hinted at an enigmatic bird's close ties to waterfowl like ducks and geese. A newfound skull may bolster that idea.

A recent study found a nearly complete skull in Antarctica that may belong to an ancient ancestor of ducks and geese called Vegavis iaai. This species lived around 68 million years ago ...

An analysis of the skull of the roughly 69-million-year-old Vegavis iaai bird provided insight into the species’ place on the evolutionary tree of birds, UT researchers said in a collaborative study ...

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The animal is called Vegavis iaai—a Late Cretaceous diving bird which lived at the same time that Tyrannosaurus rex was dominating North America. The skull exhibits a long, pointed beak and a ...

A team of researchers have shed light on the emergence of modern birds from dinosaurs, providing physical evidence that modern birds and dinosaurs co-existed during the Cretaceous period. Recipe ...

The Late Cretaceous modern (crown) bird, Vegavis iaai, pursuit diving for fish in the shallow ocean off the coast of the Antarctic peninsula, with ammonites and plesiosaurs for company. Credit: Mark ...

The specimen belongs to a species of extinct bird known as Vegavis iaai, a relative of modern ducks and geese that lived some 69 million years ago—the same time Tyrannosaurus rex was stomping around ...

A recent study published in the scientific journal “Nature” sheds light on how one particular skull from this era, that of the duck-like Vegavis iaai, may answer a longstanding question about modern ...

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.