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 ...

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

In the icy wilderness of Antarctica, where glaciers now dominate the landscape, scientists have unearthed a fossil that ...

This evidence comes from a nearly complete, 69-million-year-old skull of an extinct bird, named Vegavis iaai.  The fossil ...

A recently analyzed near-complete fossil skull found in Antarctica has revealed Vegavis iaai to be the oldest known modern bird, according to a study published in Nature.

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

Vegavis, an ancient bird from Antarctica, identified as the oldest modern bird ancestor with specialized fish-hunting adaptations.

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

Antarctic skull sheds light on ancient birds 69 million years ago - Antarctica has been called the ‘final frontier’ for ...

Antarctica may have been a refuge for early waterfowl ancestors, shielding them from the mass extinction that wiped out the dinosaurs.

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