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A newly discovered fossil in Antarctica, estimated to be 68 million years old, reveals the oldest known modern bird, Vegavis iaai. This duck-sized bird had a mixture of modern and ancient features ...

The prehistoric origin story of modern birds has always gone something like this: 66 million years ago, dinosaurs roamed the Earth, an asteroid between 10 to 15 kilometers wide smacked into what ...

Point Blue communications manager Lishka Arata and bird-banding apprentice Jacqueline Quinones collect data on a recently captured bird at Point Blue’s Palomarin Field Station in Bolinas on ...

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 for company. Credit: Mark ...

Saitta is a paleontologist who often studies non-avian dinosaurs (the branches of the dinosaur family tree that do not include modern birds). However, when he arrived at the Field Museum for a ...

The right combination of bird behaviors augured favorable conditions, but the wrong patterns spelled trouble. Today, spanning nearly 60 years, in partnership with the Point Reyes National Seashore ...

Scientists say a 69-million-year-old fossil found in Antarctica now represents the earliest known modern bird, shedding new light on the evolution of early avian species. The skull of Vegavis iaai, a ...

A pair of Vegavis iaai, the earliest known modern bird at 69 million years ago, foraging for fish and other animals in the Late Cretaceous ocean off the coast of the Antarctic Peninsula. Credit: ...

Prehistoric bird skull provides insight into emergence of modern birds and resiliency of life during mass extinctions Gabriel Scotto APG Media Feb 18, 2025 ...

In fact, some of the earliest bird species were populating the skies … or even wading in the waters. A recent study published in the scientific journal “Nature” sheds light on how one particular skull ...

Bird — or birdlike — fossils from the Jurassic period are relatively rare and often incomplete. Despite Archaeopteryx’s feathered wings, it closely resembled non-avialan dinosaurs, notably due to its ...