For decades, scientists have wondered at the taxonomy of Vegavis iaai— an ancient avian specimen that lived in what is now ...

Two hundred million years ago, icy Antarctica was a lush, temperate region, home to crocodile-sized amphibians and rhinoceros-sized dinosaurs.

A skull fossil uncovered in Antarctica may be the oldest modern bird ever found-a creature the size of a mallard […] ...

This evidence comes from a nearly complete, 69-million-year-old skull of an extinct bird, named Vegavis iaai. The fossil is ...

THE long-lost forefather of the beloved duck and goose has been discovered, after outliving the hardy dinosaurs. The ...

Near the end of the age of dinosaurs, a bird resembling today's loons and grebes dove for fish and other prey in the perilous ...

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 ...

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

With its glaciers and sub-zero temperatures, Antarctica hardly seems like a place of refuge. However, the now icy continent ...

Paleontologists have been arguing whether modern birds developed before or after the infamous asteroid for decades. Now, a ...

Digital reconstruction of the Late Cretaceous (~69 million years old) crown bird Vegavis iaai that was completed following ...