It fills in gaps in ornithologists' understanding of Vegavis iaai-- and highlights the striking ecological diversity of early birds. The fossil's discoverers said it was a waterfowl, a broad order ...

In 1992, the first Vegavis iaai fossil was discovered on Vega Island in Antarctica. It dated back roughly 68 million years to the Cretaceous Period, a geological era that saw some of today’s ...

The frozen continent was very different some 67 million years ago, but fossils reveal that Vegavis iaai looked remarkably like a modern duck. It’s the oldest known fossil tied to a modern bird ...

A recent study found a nearly complete skull in Antarctica that may belong to an ancient ancestor of ducks and geese called Vegavis iaai ... scarcity of modern bird fossils from before the ...

Digital reconstruction of the Late Cretaceous (~69 million years old) crown bird Vegavis iaai that was completed following high-resolution micro-computed tomography of a fossil-bearing concretion ...

The Late Cretaceous modern (crown) bird,Vegavis iaai, pursuit diving for fish in the shallow ocean off the coast of the Antarctic peninsula, with ammonites and plesiosaurs forcompany. Disclaimer ...

Researchers believe Vegavis iaai is the oldest known modern bird ... in the evolutionary tree due to the scarcity of modern bird fossils from before the mass extinction that occurred 66 million ...