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This Prehistoric Duck-Like Creature May Be The Earliest Modern Bird Ever Discovered
In 1992, a paleontologist unearthed the fossil of a prehistoric bird called "Vegavis iaai" in Antarctica and hypothesized that it was an early relative of today's ducks and geese. However, because the ...
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Rare bird skull from the age of dinosaurs helps illuminate avian evolution
A new study in Nature describing a fossil of a nearly complete and intact bird skull from Antarctica is shedding light on the ...
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This 69-Million-Year-Old Duck-like Skull Reveals How Modern Birds Survived the Dinosaurs
The discovery of a 69-million-year-old bird fossil is reshaping our understanding of avian evolution.
A Grip on Sports: Another big night in college hoops, more changes for college football and a Super Bowl? How did we get so lucky?
A GRIP ON SPORTS • What does this Thursday hold? Important basketball games, as always. More evidence college athletics has ...
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69-million-year-old duck-like bird from dinosaur era discovered in Antarctica
The Late Cretaceous modern (crown) bird,Vegavis iaai, pursuit diving for fish in the shallow ocean off the coast of the Antarctic peninsula, with ammonites and plesiosaurs forcompany. 66 million years ...
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Kansas zoo mourns death of 2 longtime residents
The Lee Richardson Zoo in Garden City is mourning the loss of two longtime residents. Pippin, the 20-year-old North American ...