Hemiptera, the fifth most diverse insect order, have often been overlooked in macroevolutionary studies. In this study, the authors analyse its fossil record and show that global flora changes ...

A pair of Vegavis iaai, the earliest known modern bird at 69 million years ago, foraging for fish and other animals in the Late Cretaceous ocean off the coast of the Antarctic Peninsula. Credit: ...

Dinosaur footprint in the Cretaceous period, image by James St. John, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Dinosaur footprint ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...