Sixty-six million years ago, an asteroid impact triggered the extinction of non-avian dinosaurs. Yet, some early birds, ...

Sixty-six million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period, an asteroid impact near the Yucat n Peninsula of Mexico triggered the extinction of all known non-bird dinosaurs. But for the early ...

A 69 million-year-old skull fossil discovered in Antarctica is an ancient relative of geese and ducks, making it the oldest ...

A fossil from Antarctica unveils the oldest-known modern bird, Vegavis iaai, dating back 69 million years. In Chile, ...

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

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

Ancient bird Vegavis iaai, unearthed near Antarctica, holds the record as oldest lineage ancestor of all current birds. Fossil predates asteroid strike by three million years. Scientific community ...

A 69-million-year-old fossilized skull unearthed in Antarctica could rewrite the history of modern birds. The nearly complete ...

A new study by Ohio University found an important fossil of the oldest known modern bird, which lived in Antarctica when ...

A newly analysed fossil skull settles a palaeontological debate over Vegavis iaai, confirming it as a relative of ducks and ...

A near-perfect fossilized skull discovered in Antarctica reveals the bridge between prehistoric and modern birds, a new study ...

Some paleontologists think that fossils recovered from Antarctica are evidence of birds similar to modern geese and ducks ...