The Yolo Bird Alliance invites the public to enjoy two exciting November events celebrating birds, science, and community: a ...

A worldwide revision of the Cretaceous record of Neornithes (crown birds) revealed that unambiguous neornithine taxa are extremely scarce, with only a few showing diagnostic features to be confidently ...

We tend to associate dinosaurs with ground-shaking roars, but the latest research shows that this is probably mistaken. You'd feel it more than hear it – a deep, visceral throb, emerging from ...

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: ...

An analysis of the skull of the roughly 69-million-year-old Vegavis iaai bird provided insight into the species’ place on the evolutionary tree of birds, UT researchers said in a collaborative study ...

Paleontologists have found the first complete skull of a controversial prehistoric bird. Known as Vegavis iaai, the bird thrived in late-Cretaceous Antarctica, then a tropical paradise. About a ...

Texas House Speaker Dustin Burrows has named 30 Republican committee chairs, relying on close allies to push his agenda and maintain GOP control in the chamber. While some Democrats secured vice-chair ...

Fossilised skull of Vegavis iaai found in Antarctica dates to 69 millio Skull structure suggests links to modern ducks and geese Findings support theories on bird ...

A 69-million-year-old fossil discovered in Antarctica is changing what scientists thought they knew about the origins of modern birds. This remarkable find sheds new light on avian evolution, hinting ...

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 ...

Paleontologists have described in detail the skull of an ancient bird Vegavis iaai, which lived in Antarctica 69,2–68,4 million years ago and belonged to the order Anseriformes. New research has ...