Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Paleontologists have found the first complete skull of a controversial prehistoric bird. Known as Vegavis iaai, the bird thrived ...

A recently analyzed near-complete fossil skull found in Antarctica has revealed Vegavis iaai to be the oldest known modern bird, according to a study published in Nature. A recently analyzed ...

Vegavis iaai has been a controversial bird species. Scientists first discovered its fossils 20 years ago. Initially, they did not have enough of its skeleton to properly characterize it as a modern ...

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A 69-million-year-old skull found in Antarctica belonged to what scientists say is the oldest known modern bird. An early relative of the continent's ducks and geese, it lived off the Antarctic coast ...

A fossil unearthed in Antarctica has provided evidence of the oldest known modern bird—a species closely related to today’s waterfowl and roughly the size of a mallard duck. According to a recent ...

An illustration of the Vegavis iaai diving for fish off the coast of the Antarctic peninsula. Mark Witton, 2025. The Chicxulub impactor smashed into Earth, wiped out around 75 percent of our planet’s ...

Learn more about Vegavis iaai, an ancient ancestor of modern-day ducks, and one of the earliest modern birds ever discovered. The Late Cretaceous modern bird, Vegavis iaai, pursuit diving for fish in ...

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, ...

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