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Ancient Antarctic fossil reveals Earth’s oldest modern bird
Scientists have made an exciting discovery—a 69-million-year-old fossil found in Antarctica is the oldest known modern bird.
Greek Reporter19h
Rare Black Devil Fish Caught on Video in Daylight for the First Time
A team of marine biologists in Tenerife, Canary Islands, have caught on video a rare black devil fish for the first time in ...
Antarctic snow harbors microplastics: New technique uncovers hidden pollution
Scientists have discovered microplastics in the snow near some of Antarctica's deep field camps, revealing how far-reaching ...
Scientists discover microplastics in Antarctica's most remote regions
The sheer scale of Earth's plastic problem has been laid bare in a new study, led by researchers from the British Antarctic ...
Greek Reporter2d
Fossil of the Oldest Known Modern Bird Discovered in Antarctica
A 69 million-year-old skull fossil discovered in Antarctica is an ancient relative of geese and ducks, making it the oldest ...
EurekAlert!3d
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 ...
Smithsonian Magazine3d
Paleontologists Discover Fossil of the Oldest Known Modern Bird—but It Raises More Questions Than It Answers
Paleontologists have been arguing whether modern birds developed before or after the infamous asteroid for decades. Now, a ...
techexplorist3d
An important new fossil of the oldest known modern bird
A new study by Ohio University found an important fossil of the oldest known modern bird, which lived in Antarctica when ...
New Scientist3d
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Search for the Original Silly Goose in the Fossil Record
Some paleontologists think that fossils recovered from Antarctica are evidence of birds similar to modern geese and ducks ...