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This 69-Million-Year-Old Duck-like Skull Reveals How Modern Birds Survived the Dinosaurs
In the icy wilderness of Antarctica, where glaciers now dominate the landscape, scientists have unearthed a fossil that ...
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Earth’s first waterfowl may have lived in Antarctica 69 million years ago
A few fossilized body parts hinted at an enigmatic bird's close ties to waterfowl like ducks and geese. A newfound skull may bolster that idea.
After the asteroid, the earliest bird ancestors thrived in Antarctica
With its glaciers and sub-zero temperatures, Antarctica hardly seems like a place of refuge. However, the now icy continent ...
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 ...
Clever Way To Study Bird Brains
A masked lapwing (Vanellus miles) and its reflection in water. Courtesy Michael Jury of Mykelphotography.It's difficult to ...
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Rediscovered 45-million-year-old skull turns out to be a large, extinct bird species
A forgotten fossil in a German museum turned out to be a rare Diatryma skull. Scientists corrected a decades-old ...
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 ...
Bird Brains Exposed: The Digital Revolution in Avian Intelligence Research
Researchers have developed a method to study bird brains by creating digital endocasts from empty cranial spaces in bird ...
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Bird brains: Why they’re bigger and smarter than we thought
“While ‘bird brain’ is often used as an insult, the brains of birds are so large that they are practically a braincase with a ...
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Rediscovered fossil reveals rare bird skull from 45 million years ago
and the Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum in Frankfurt report on the bird's fully preserved skull in the journal Palaeontologia Electronica. The fossil was unearthed in the ...
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45-million-year-old giant bird skull misidentified for decades, finally recognized
Paleontologists have uncovered an exceptionally complete skull of a massive bird that lived 45 million years ago. This fossilized skull belonged to now-extinct Diatryma, a flightless bird that ...