Known as Vegavis iaai, the bird thrived in late-Cretaceous Antarctica, then a tropical paradise. About a million years before the asteroid that wiped out 75% of life on Earth, it went extinct.

Vegavis iaai was first reported 20 years ago by Dr. Julia Clarke of The University of Texas at Austin and several colleagues, who proposed it as an early member of modern birds evolutionarily ...

The 68 million-year-old fossil belongs to an extinct species of bird known as Vegavis iaai that lived at the end of the Cretaceous period, when Tyrannosaurus rex dominated North America and just ...

The nearly complete skull of Vegavis iaai, a duck-sized bird that lived 69 million years ago, reveals that modern birds — those with toothless beaks and specialized brains — were already ...

Some 66 million years ago, when dinosaurs such as T. rex still roamed the Earth, an ancient bird dubbed Vegavis iaai soared high in the sky. While some of its close cousins — like the T. rex ...

A study published Wednesday in Nature describes the oldest known modern bird — a relative of ducks and geese — that lived in Antarctica around the same time Tyrannosaurus rex dominated North America.

Life Ancient relative of geese is the earliest known modern bird A newly analysed fossil skull settles a palaeontological debate over Vegavis iaai, confirming it as a relative of ducks and geese ...

In this illustration, the Late Cretaceous Vegavis iaai dives for fish off the coast of the Antarctic peninsula. Scientists have found a fossil belonging to what scientists say is the oldest known ...

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, during the ...

A glimpse into the cretaceous era The fossil, estimated to be around 68 million years old, belongs to Vegavis iaai, an extinct bird species that lived during the late Cretaceous period. This was ...

A 68-million-year-old Antarctic fossil revealed the oldest known modern bird, Vegavis iaai, a duck-sized diver with traits linking it to today’s waterfowl. | Trending ...