A newly studied Vegavis iaai skull from Antarctica confirms that modern bird lineages, like ducks and geese, were evolving ...

THE long-lost forefather of the beloved duck and goose has been discovered, after outliving the hardy dinosaurs ... Its skull has a long, pointed beak and signals a brain shape similar to modern ...

With its glaciers and sub-zero temperatures, Antarctica hardly seems like a place of refuge. However, the now icy continent might have been just that for the early ancestors of today’s living ...

Or was this diversification already well underway during the Age of Dinosaurs ... Vegavis and its distinctive beak underscore the diversity of duck-like birds that once walked the Earth.

They found that Vegavis had the toothless beak and brain shape characteristic ... neoaves and ducks that may have roamed alongside non-avian dinosaurs.” Heart Failure Hope: Growing awareness ...

First, the upper beak ... dinosaurs like Velociraptor, these areas are proportionally much smaller. While Vegavis has features that clearly mark it as being in the same group of waterfowl as ducks ...

Birds that lived among the dinosaurs were barely recognizable when compared with today’s bird species. Many sported bizarre features such as toothed beaks and long, bony tails. Vegavis ...

Near the end of the age of dinosaurs, a bird resembling ... of a mallard but did not have a bill like a duck. It instead had a spear-shaped beak like a loon. Its skeletal structure indicates ...