A research team led by Professor Wang Min from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) of the ...

The fossil sheds light on interactions within the Cretaceous food web and may represent the first record of this type of ...

The discovery of the duck-billed dinosaur fossils suggests these creatures likely migrated from North America to southern ...

Digital reconstruction of the Late Cretaceous (~69 million years old) crown bird Vegavis iaai that was completed following ...

Three dinosaur-themed bounce houses await and there’s a Jurassic Quest gift shop called the Dino Store, which sells ...

For decades, scientists have wondered at the taxonomy of Vegavis iaai— an ancient avian specimen that lived in what is now ...

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

Researchers discovered a protein in a 68- to 66-million-year-old fossil that many scientists would have argued should have ...

Skull of ancient bird Vegavis is 69 million years old Key traits define Vegavis as anatomically modern bird Antarctica had a ...

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.

The Late Cretaceous modern (crown) bird,Vegavis iaai, pursuit diving for fish in the shallow ocean off the coast of the Antarctic peninsula, with ammonites and plesiosaurs forcompany. Sixty-six ...

Cretaceous fossil from Antarctica reveals earliest modern bird. ScienceDaily . Retrieved February 8, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2025 / 02 / 250205131109.htm ...