For decades, scientists have wondered at the taxonomy of Vegavis iaai—an ancient avian specimen that lived in what is now ...
In 1992, a paleontologist unearthed the fossil of a prehistoric bird called "Vegavis iaai" in Antarctica and hypothesized that it was an early relative of today's ducks and geese. However, because the ...
Paleontologists have been arguing whether modern birds developed before or after the infamous asteroid for decades. Now, a ...
A near-perfect fossilized skull discovered in Antarctica reveals the bridge between prehistoric and modern birds, a new study ...
Some paleontologists think that fossils recovered from Antarctica are evidence of birds similar to modern geese and ducks ...
A 68-million-year-old skull fossil found in Antarctica has revealed the oldest known modern bird, which was likely related to ...
The near-complete fossil skull, unearthed on Vega Island near the Antarctic Peninsula, reveals a bird that thrived in the ...
Learn more about Vegavis iaai, an ancient ancestor of modern-day ducks, and one of the earliest modern birds ever discovered.
Dinosaurs could thrive and survive in Earth’s prehistoric, oxygen-thin atmosphere due to having ... such as crocodiles and alligator, and the lungs of modern-day bird species, such as the ostrich.