Scientists Just Found The Oldest Modern Bird Buried in the Antarctic Ice
For decades, scientists have wondered at the taxonomy of Vegavis iaai—an ancient avian specimen that lived in what is now ...
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Earliest modern bird lived in Antarctica 69 million years ago
Certain birds that gave rise to today’s ducks and geese found sanctuary in Antarctica during a mass extinction event 66 ...
After the asteroid, the earliest bird ancestors thrived in Antarctica
With its glaciers and sub-zero temperatures, Antarctica hardly seems like a place of refuge. However, the now icy continent ...
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Fossil of oldest known modern bird discovered in Antarctica
A 68-million-year-old skull fossil found in Antarctica has revealed the oldest known modern bird, which was likely related to ...
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‘Weird and wonderful’: Antarctic fossil forces scientists to redraw the bird family tree
In a nutshell A newly discovered 69-million-year-old bird skull from Antarctica proves that modern birds were already diverse ...
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Paleontologists Discover Fossil of the Oldest Known Modern Bird—but It Raises More Questions Than It Answers
The fossil suggests that modern birds evolved before the dinosaur-killing asteroid, perhaps in Antarctica Margherita Bassi ...
Loon-like waterfowl from dinosaur-era Antarctica is oldest 'modern' bird
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 ...
Cretaceous fossil from Antarctica reveals earliest modern bird
Digital reconstruction of the Late Cretaceous (~69 million years old) crown bird Vegavis iaai that was completed following ...
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Remarkable Fossil Discovery Hints at Antarctic Origins of All Modern Birds
A near-perfect fossilized skull discovered in Antarctica reveals the bridge between prehistoric and modern birds, a new study ...
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An Antarctic Fossil From 69 Million Years Ago Reveals Earth’s Early Birds
The Late Cretaceous modern 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 Witton, ...
The Search for the Original Silly Goose in the Fossil Record
Some paleontologists think that fossils recovered from Antarctica are evidence of birds similar to modern geese and ducks ...
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Antarctic skull sheds light on ancient birds 69 million years ago
A 69-million-year-old skull found in Antarctica belonged to what scientists say is the oldest known modern bird. An early relative of the continent’s ducks and geese, it lived off the Antarctic ...