A recent study found a nearly complete skull in Antarctica that may belong to an ancient ancestor of ducks and geese called Vegavis iaai. This species lived around 68 million years ago ...

Even with this new fossil evidence, paleontologists are divided over what kind of bird Vegavis really was. Early studies suggested that it was a distant ancestor of ducks and geese, but the new ...

Credit: Andrew McAfee (Carnegie Museum of Natural History), 2025. A newly studied Vegavis iaai skull from Antarctica confirms that modern bird lineages, like ducks and geese, were evolving alongside ...

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 ...

Vegavis was an early waterfowl, a group that also includes ducks and geese. Vegavis appears to have been ecologically specialized to pursue fish and other prey underwater in a shallow marine ecosystem ...

The Nashville Predators lost 2-1 to the Anaheim Ducks at Honda Center on Friday after a late go-ahead goal by Alex Killorn. Killorn scored at the 11:20 mark of the third period, shortly after the ...

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For several decades, waterfowl stood out as a conservation bright spot with duck populations growing nationwide even as many other groups of birds declined in the U.S. But that trend has reversed ...