A recently analyzed near-complete fossil skull found in Antarctica has revealed Vegavis iaai to be the oldest known modern bird, according to a study published in Nature.

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

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

Sixty-six million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period ... an important new fossil of the oldest known modern bird, an early relative of ducks and geese that lived in Antarctica at around ...

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

An artist's impression of "Vegavis iaai"—an early ancestor of ducks and ... Based on fossil evidence, it is believed that the Antarctica of 66 million years ago sported a temperate climate ...

“Those few places with a respectable Late Cretaceous fossil record of birds, like Madagascar, reveal an aviary of bizarre early birds with ... Natural History), 2025 Antarctica during the Late ...

Sixty-six million years ago, at the end of the ... fossil of the oldest known modern bird, an early relative of ducks and geese that lived in Antarctica at around the same time Tyrannosaurus ...

Sixty-six million years ... But for the early ancestors of today’s waterfowl, surviving that mass extinction event was like…water off a duck’s back. Location matters, as Antarctica may ...