A Cretaceous Period bird called Vegavis iaai dives for fish in the shallow ocean off the coast of the Antarctic peninsula in this illustration released Feb. 5. Near the end of the age of dinosaurs, a ...

A flock of birds over the mountains. Screenshot from Are Birds Modern-Day Dinosaurs? | National Geographic Source: YouTube Channel: National Geographic You may be surprised to know that birds and ...

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: ...

Dinosaur footprint in the Cretaceous period, image by James St. John, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Dinosaur footprint ...

A recent study found a nearly complete skull in Antarctica that may belong to an ancient ancestor of ducks and geese called Vegavis iaai. This species lived around 68 million years ago ...

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 ...

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A team of researchers have shed light on the emergence of modern birds from dinosaurs, providing physical evidence that modern birds and dinosaurs co-existed during the Cretaceous period. Recipe ...

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

Scientists have unearthed an exceptionally well-preserved skull belonging to Vegavis iaai, a diving bird that swam in Antarctic waters approximately 69 million years ago, during the last days of ...

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