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

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 ...

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

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

With its glaciers and sub-zero temperatures, Antarctica hardly seems like a place of refuge. However, the now icy continent ...

Digital reconstruction of the Late Cretaceous (~69 million years old) crown bird Vegavis iaai that was completed following ...

The new skull exhibits a long, pointed beak and a brain shape unique among all known birds previously discovered from the ...

Vegavis was first described two decades ago ... now-extinct species with teeth and long bony tails, only distantly related to modern birds. "Something very different seems to have been happening ...

All other Vegavis specimens found to date have been either skeletons ... reveal an aviary of bizarre, now-extinct species ...

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

Vegavis, however, would have been ducklike in ... Skulls are where the most characteristic features of modern birds, such as a lack of teeth and an enlarged premaxillary bone in the upper beak ...

The Late Cretaceous modern bird, Vegavis iaai, pursuit diving for fish in the shallow ... now-extinct species with teeth and long bony tails, only distantly related to modern birds,” said Patrick ...