A fossilised bird skull found in Antarctica reveals evolutionary links between Vegavis iaai and modern waterfowl species.
"Few birds are as likely to start as many arguments among paleontologists as 'vegavis,'" said professor Christopher Torres.
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‘Weird and wonderful’: Antarctic fossil forces scientists to redraw the bird family treeDiscover the remarkable bird fossil from Antarctica that is rewriting the story of bird evolution. Learn how this 69-million-year-old bird challenges previous theories.
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Ancient relative of geese is the earliest known modern birdA newly analysed fossil skull settles a palaeontological debate over Vegavis iaai, confirming it as a relative of ducks and ...
With its glaciers and sub-zero temperatures, Antarctica hardly seems like a place of refuge. However, the now icy continent ...
Paleontologists have been arguing whether modern birds developed before or after the infamous asteroid for decades. Now, a ...
A near-perfect fossilized skull discovered in Antarctica reveals the bridge between prehistoric and modern birds, a new study ...
Some paleontologists think that fossils recovered from Antarctica are evidence of birds similar to modern geese and ducks ...
For decades, scientists have wondered at the taxonomy of Vegavis iaai— an ancient avian specimen that lived in what is now ...
A new study in Nature describing a fossil of a nearly complete and intact bird skull from Antarctica is shedding light on the ...
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 new fossil unearthed on Vega Island near the Antarctic Peninsula of the ancient bird named Vegavis iaai dates to about 69 ...
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