A 1,000 year-old human skeleton which was buried sitting cross-legged in India has been moved to a museum six years after it was excavated. The BBC had reported earlier this month that the ...

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In 2005, for instance, Clarke and her collaborators named a new species, Vegavis iaai, from a beautiful skeleton found on Antarctica’s Vega Island. This 68- to 66-million-year-old avian turned out to ...

Vegavis is among the best-known bird species from this era. There are multiple fossils of this bird, including the oldest known fossil bird vocal organ. But research on the new skull — and the shape ...

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, during the ...

Vegavis was first reported 20 years ago by study co-author Dr. Julia Clarke of The University of Texas at Austin and several colleagues. ... These skull features are consistent with clues from ...

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 ...

Originally identified two decades ago by study co-author Julia Clarke of The University of Texas at Austin and colleagues, Vegavis was suggested to be a primitive modern (crown) bird related to ...

A newly discovered fossil in Antarctica, estimated to be 68 million years old, reveals the oldest known modern bird, Vegavis iaai. This duck-sized bir. Sign In. TOI. Go to TOI. Etimes. home.

An illustration of "Vegavis iaai's" skeleton, with preserved bones depicted in white. Christopher Torres, University of the Pacific. Birds from elsewhere around the globe that date back to the end ...

Its skeleton suggests that it used its feet to swim, similar to modern grebes and loons rather than ducks and geese. “This fossil is going to answer a lot of questions about Vegavis ,” said Dr ...

Vegavis was first reported 20 years ago by study co-author Julia Clarke of the University of ... These skull features are consistent with clues from elsewhere in the skeleton, suggesting that Vegavis ...