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

The discovery of a 69-million-year-old bird fossil is reshaping our understanding of avian evolution.

Or was this diversification already well underway during the Age of Dinosaurs ... the Vegavis skull has some decidedly un-ducklike features. Most notably, a long, spear-shaped beak.

In a nutshell A newly discovered 69-million-year-old bird skull from Antarctica proves that modern birds were already diverse ...

A newly analysed fossil skull settles a palaeontological debate over Vegavis iaai, confirming it as a relative of ducks and geese that lived 69 million years ago ...

The near-complete fossil skull, unearthed on Vega Island near the Antarctic Peninsula, reveals a bird that thrived in the challenging waters off Antarctica roughly 69 million years ago, just three ...

Birds that lived among the dinosaurs were barely recognizable ... For instance, the study noted that the skull preserves traces of a slender, pointed beak powered by enhanced jaw muscles, a ...

Among the many unique qualities of this long-extinct Antarctic bird, it seems to have been the earliest creature that could ...

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

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 ...

THE long-lost forefather of the beloved duck and goose has been discovered, after outliving the hardy dinosaurs. The feathered creature thrived during the Cretaceous period, and continued to do so ...

Antarctica has been called the ‘final frontier’ for humanity’s understanding of life when dinosaurs roamed the planet ...