In a nutshell A newly discovered 69-million-year-old bird skull from Antarctica proves that modern birds were already diverse ...

A 68-million-year-old Antarctic fossil revealed the oldest known modern bird, Vegavis iaai, a duck-sized diver with traits ...

"Few birds are as likely to start as many arguments among paleontologists as 'vegavis,'" said professor Christopher Torres.

A 68-million-year-old skull fossil found in Antarctica has revealed the oldest known modern bird, which was likely related to ...

A fossilised bird skull found in Antarctica reveals evolutionary links between Vegavis iaai and modern waterfowl species.

Paleontologists have been arguing whether modern birds developed before or after the infamous asteroid for decades. Now, a ...

Digital reconstruction of the Late Cretaceous (~69 million years old) crown bird Vegavis iaai that was completed following ...

A new study in Nature describing a fossil of a nearly complete and intact bird skull from Antarctica is shedding light on the ...

Learn more about Vegavis iaai, an ancient ancestor of modern-day ducks, and one of the earliest modern birds ever discovered.

The 68 million-year-old fossil belongs to an extinct species of bird known as Vegavis iaai that lived at the end of the Cretaceous period, when Tyrannosaurus rex dominated North America and just ...

Some paleontologists think that fossils recovered from Antarctica are evidence of birds similar to modern geese and ducks ...

A near-perfect fossilized skull discovered in Antarctica reveals the bridge between prehistoric and modern birds, a new study ...