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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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 ...
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Are birds reptiles?
"I would say that any modern biologist would, or should, say that birds are reptiles," Martin Stervander, an evolutionary ...
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Why do birds make so many different sounds? A study gets at the underlying factors
More information: H. S. Sathya Chandra Sagar et al, Global analysis of acoustic frequency characteristics in birds, Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences (2024). DOI: 10.1098/rspb.
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 bird, according to a study published in Nature.
Loon-like waterfowl from dinosaur-era Antarctica is oldest 'modern' bird
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 ...
Remarkable Fossil Discovery Hints at Antarctic Origins of All Modern Birds
A near-perfect fossilized skull discovered in Antarctica reveals the bridge between prehistoric and modern birds, a new study ...
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Space Coast bird fest spies flamingos, other sky-high hopes of ecological recovery
Flamingos are the feature bird at this year's festival. So despite all the recent birding 'downers,' the advent of pink flamingos has birders seeing through rose-colored glasses. Brevard's premier ...