After the asteroid, the earliest bird ancestors thrived in Antarctica
With its glaciers and sub-zero temperatures, Antarctica hardly seems like a place of refuge. However, the now icy continent ...
69-million-year-old skull found in Antarctica is oldest ‘modern’ bird
The near-complete fossil skull, unearthed on Vega Island near the Antarctic Peninsula, reveals a bird that thrived in the ...
Loon-like waterfowl from dinosaur-era Antarctica is oldest 'modern' bird
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 ...
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69-million-year-old duck-like bird from dinosaur era discovered in Antarctica
This evidence comes from a nearly complete, 69-million-year-old skull of an extinct bird, named Vegavis iaai. The fossil is ...
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Fishing boats spotted competing with whales in Antarctica for krill
The fishing boats and whales are “going after ... For example, most humpbacks are only in Antarctica for the Southern Hemisphere summer when they fatten up on krill. Humpbacks largely fast ...
The Irish Times1 个月
How krill fishing threatens whale recovery in Antarctica
Krill fishing is an example of “fishing down ... and regulation is imperative to sustainable futures in Antarctica and Ireland alike. It should otherwise be expected that the ocean’s smallest ...
pravda.com.ua14 天
Fishing in Antarctica: Ukrainian vessels achieve record catch in three years
SIMEIZ, KOREIZ, CALIPSO and MARIGOLDS were focused on toothfish. MORE SODRUZHESTVA focused on Antarctic krill fishing. Fishing enterprises paid over UAH 7.2 million (approx. US$172,000) to local ...
66 million years ago, Antarctica was lush, temperate, and home to the oldest modern bird ...
A recently analyzed near-complete fossil skull found in Antarctica has revealed Vegavis iaai to be the oldest known modern ...