Until now, the oldest known specimen of a syrinx - made from cartilage quick to decompose - dated from a mere 2.5 million years ago. The new fossil belonged to a species known as Vegavis iaai and ...

The primitive bird it belonged to – a goose-like creature called Vegavis iaai – would have coexisted ... ago during the Jurassic period. If the syrinx from a bird living 66-68 million years ...

It led researchers to hypothesize that non-avian dinosaurs could have had a syrinx more like a bird (which is located in the chest), and not the larynx of mammals and crocodiles (which is located ...

Human speech arises courtesy of some significant neural horsepower. Different areas of the brain are involved in determining the meaning that's desired, finding the words to express it, and then ...

Their mission is peace, but achieving peace isn’t a simple matter. At first, Vekura’s attack on Syrinx Prime is said to be unprovoked. A little exploration by the Jedi reveals that Syrinx ...

However, recent fossil discoveries—particularly of one waterfowl-like species named Vegavis iaai—complicate this simple narrative. During the late Cretaceou period, the landmass that is now ...

Scientists have unearthed an exceptionally well-preserved skull belonging to Vegavis iaai, a diving bird that swam in Antarctic waters approximately 69 million years ago, during the last days of ...

The specimen belongs to a species of extinct bird known as Vegavis iaai, a relative of modern ducks and geese that lived some 69 million years ago—the same time Tyrannosaurus rex was stomping ...

The fossil which is a nearly complete skull is believed to be 69-million-years old and belonged to a species called Vegavis iaai. Vegavis iaai is a waterfowl species that is thought to be the ...

A recently analyzed near-complete fossil skull found in Antarctica has revealed Vegavis iaai to be the oldest known modern bird, according to a study published in Nature. 66 million years ago ...

The new fossil unearthed on Vega Island near the Antarctic Peninsula of the ancient bird named Vegavis iaai dates to about 69 million years ago, approximately three million years before the ...

The new fossil unearthed on Vega Island near the Antarctic Peninsula of the ancient bird named Vegavis iaai dates to about 69 million years ago, approximately three million years before the ...