An artistic depiction of the Late Cretaceous modern (crown) bird, Vegavis iaai, pursuit diving for fish in the shallow ocean ...
Clarke notes that the ducks and geese of today are just a small ... has much to tell us about the earliest stages of modern bird evolution,” he said. Fossils of animals and plants from this ...
The Anatidae are the biological family of birds that includes ducks, geese and swans ... These are birds that are adapted through evolution for swimming, floating on the water surface, and ...
Scientists say a 69-million-year-old fossil found in Antarctica now represents the earliest known modern bird, shedding new light on the evolution of early avian species. The skull of Vegavis iaai, a ...