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 ...
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Earliest modern bird lived in Antarctica 69 million years ago
Certain birds that gave rise to today’s ducks and geese found sanctuary in Antarctica during a mass extinction event 66 ...
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Earth’s first waterfowl may have lived in Antarctica 69 million years ago
An ancient bird that swam in Antarctica’s balmier waters 69 million years ago may be the earliest known waterfowl on Earth, scientists say. Birds were the only dinosaurs to survive the end ...
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Cretaceous fossil from Antarctica reveals earliest modern bird
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 ...
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Antarctica Yields Intact Skull — An Ancestor of Today’s Waterfowl That Survived Dinosaur Extinction
The skull exhibits a long, pointed beak and a brain shape unique among all known birds previously discovered from the ...
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Earliest Bird Discovery May Settle Long-Running Mystery
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 ...
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Ancient bird skull from Antarctica might be from early duck relative
“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 ...
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Cretaceous fossil from Antarctica reveals earliest modern bird
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 ...