Antarctic terns and skuas. It was the latter of these birds that resulted in a true National Geographic moment for the Knutillas as they watched a skua steal an egg from a squawking penguin ...

Skua – Skuas are birds that breed in both the Arctic and Antarctica. – They have different plumage variations depending on the region. – Skuas spend most of their lives at sea and come ashore during ...

Dr Norman Ratcliffe, a seabird ecologist at the British Antarctic Survey ... The giant petrel and brown skua are the probable vectors that introduced bird flu to the island. These birds spend part of ...

Certain birds that gave rise to today’s ducks and geese found sanctuary in Antarctica during a mass extinction event 66 ...

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

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

A newly discovered fossil in Antarctica, estimated to be 68 million years old, reveals the oldest known modern bird, Vegavis iaai. This duck-sized bird had a mixture of modern and ancient features ...

Discover 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.

Skull of ancient bird Vegavis is 69 million years old Key traits define Vegavis as anatomically modern bird Antarctica had a temperate climate during Cretaceous Period Feb 5 (Reuters) - Near the ...

The fossil, a nearly complete, 69-million-year-old skull, belongs to an extinct bird named Vegavis iaai, and was collected during a 2011 expedition by the Antarctic Peninsula Paleontology Project.

A paper published in the journal Nature describes an important new fossil of the oldest known modern bird, an early relative of ducks and geese that lived in Antarctica at around the same time ...