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Fossils of 'Early Modern Bird' Reveal It Existed Before the Asteroid Strike That Likely Wiped Out the Dinosaurs When a ...

Baminornis is a landmark discovery and ranks among the most important bird fossils unearthed since the discovery ...

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

The fossil suggests that modern birds evolved before the dinosaur-killing asteroid, perhaps in Antarctica Margherita Bassi ...

A new study in Nature describing a fossil of a nearly complete and intact bird skull from Antarctica is shedding light on the ...

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

The discovery of a 69-million-year-old bird fossil is reshaping our understanding of avian evolution.

"Few birds are as likely to start as many arguments among paleontologists as 'vegavis,'" said professor Christopher Torres.

The fossil, a nearly complete, 69-million-year-old skull, belongs to an extinct bird named Vegavis ... and a brain shape ...

This form of 'prehistoric foreplay' - evidenced by scrape marks in the dusty ground - was similar to that of some modern birds. Some dinosaur species are thought to have evolved elaborate horns ...