"Few birds are as likely to start as many arguments among paleontologists as 'vegavis,'" said professor Christopher Torres.

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

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Estimated to be 68 million years old, the fossil belongs to Vegavis iaai, an extinct bird species that lived during the late Cretaceous period. This was the era when Tyrannosaurus rex roamed North ...

The specimen belongs to a species of extinct bird known as Vegavis iaai, a relative of modern ducks and geese that lived some 69 million years ago—the same time Tyrannosaurus rex was stomping ...

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The fossil, a nearly complete, 69-million-year-old skull, belongs to an extinct bird named Vegavis iaai and was collected during a 2011 expedition by the Antarctic Peninsula Palaeontology Project.