The fossil sheds light on interactions within the Cretaceous food web and may represent the first record of this type of ...

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

The discovery of the duck-billed dinosaur fossils suggests these creatures likely migrated from North America to southern ...

Three dinosaur-themed bounce houses await and there’s a Jurassic Quest gift shop called the Dino Store, which sells ...

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

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

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 ...

An asteroid impact near the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico around 66 million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period, ...

A few fossilized body parts hinted at an enigmatic bird's close ties to waterfowl like ducks and geese. A newfound skull may bolster that idea.

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. Sixty-six ...

Cretaceous fossil from Antarctica reveals earliest modern bird. ScienceDaily . Retrieved February 8, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2025 / 02 / 250205131109.htm ...