A near complete skull fossil found in Antarctica has revealed the oldest known modern bird — a mallard duck-size creature related to the waterfowl that live by lakes and oceans today ...

A 69-million-year-old skull found in Antarctica belonged to what scientists say is the oldest known modern bird. An early relative of the continent’s ducks and geese, it lived off the Antarctic ...

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

An Antarctic discovery might offer new insights into the origins of modern birds. The skull, from an ancient relative of ducks and geese known as Vegavis iaai, suggests that the key characteristics of ...

The near-complete fossil skull, unearthed on Vega Island near the Antarctic Peninsula, reveals a bird that thrived in the challenging waters off Antarctica roughly 69 million years ago ...

The discovery of both of these fossils in Antarctica also suggests that the now-frozen continent could have been a safe haven of sorts—particularly for early modern birds—as the ravages of the ...

A pair of Vegavis iaai, the earliest known modern bird at 69 million years ago, foraging for fish and other animals in the Late Cretaceous ocean off the coast of the Antarctic Peninsula The nearly ...

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 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 ...

(Reuters) - Near the end of the age of dinosaurs, a bird resembling today's loons and grebes dove for fish and other prey in the perilous waters off Antarctica. Thanks to a nearly complete fossil ...