In the icy wilderness of Antarctica, where glaciers now dominate the landscape, scientists have unearthed a fossil that ...
Paleontologists have been arguing whether modern birds developed before or after the infamous asteroid for decades. Now, a ...
Ancient bird Vegavis iaai, unearthed near Antarctica, holds the record as oldest lineage ancestor of all current birds. Fossil predates asteroid strike by three million years. Scientific community ...
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 ...
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68 Million-Year-Old Antarctic Fossil Proves Existence Of Dinosaur-Era DucksA Cretaceous-era skull found on Vega Island, Antarctica, has been confirmed as a member of the same order as ducks and geese, ...
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69-million-year-old duck-like bird from dinosaur era discovered in AntarcticaThis evidence comes from a nearly complete, 69-million-year-old skull of an extinct bird, named Vegavis iaai. The fossil ...
Recent scientific discoveries include the identification of an ancient Antarctic bird as the oldest 'modern' bird, revelations about moon canyons formed by asteroid impact, Chile's struggle with light ...
A new study by Ohio University found an important fossil of the oldest known modern bird, which lived in Antarctica when ...
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