The discovery of a nearly complete skull from the extinct bird Vegavis iaai suggests that the ancestors of today’s birds coexisted with dinosaurs before the infamous Chicxulub impactor wiped out ...

A pair of Vegavis iaai, the earliest known modern bird at 69 million years ago, foraging for fish and other animals in the Late Cretaceous ocean off the coast of the Antarctic Peninsula. Credit: ...

Identified as Vegavis iaai, the specimen is closely related to modern ducks and geese, with skull features supporting its classification as a waterfowl. Researchers suggest that its advanced ...

Identified as Vegavis iaai, the specimen is closely related to modern ducks and geese, with skull features supporting its classification as a waterfowl. Researchers suggest that its advanced ...

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A Cretaceous Period bird called Vegavis iaai dives for fish in the shallow ocean off the coast of the Antarctic peninsula in this illustration released Feb. 5. Near the end of the age of dinosaurs, a ...

Dinosaur footprint in the Cretaceous period, image by James St. John, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Dinosaur footprint ...

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A flock of birds over the mountains. Screenshot from Are Birds Modern-Day Dinosaurs? | National Geographic Source: YouTube Channel: National Geographic You may be surprised to know that birds and ...