66 million years ago, Antarctica was lush, temperate, and home to the oldest modern bird and T-Rex
A recently analyzed near-complete fossil skull found in Antarctica has revealed Vegavis iaai to be the oldest known modern ...
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69-million-year-old duck-like bird from dinosaur era discovered in Antarctica
This evidence comes from a nearly complete, 69-million-year-old skull of an extinct bird, named Vegavis iaai.  The fossil ...
69-million-year-old skull found in Antarctica is oldest ‘modern’ bird
The near-complete fossil skull, unearthed on Vega Island near the Antarctic Peninsula, reveals a bird that thrived in the ...
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How is the ocean melting Antarctica? We're starting to figure it out
Much of this uncertainty is because the ocean processes that control the fate of the sheet occur on an incredibly small scale ...
Skull fossil discovery reveals oldest known modern bird
A 68-million-year-old skull fossil found in Antarctica has revealed the oldest known modern bird, which was likely related to ...
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Submarine mysteriously disappears while conducting research in Antarctica
It's been a year since the underwater vehicle Ran vanished beneath a glacier in Antarctica. Owned by the University of ...
69-million-year-old fossil reveals ancient diving bird in Antarctica
Vegavis, an ancient bird from Antarctica, identified as the oldest modern bird ancestor with specialized fish-hunting adaptations.
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Ancient Antarctic fossil sheds light on early waterfowl evolution
Antarctica may have been a refuge for early waterfowl ancestors, shielding them from the mass extinction that wiped out the dinosaurs.