"Few birds are as likely to start as many arguments among paleontologists as 'vegavis,'" said professor Christopher Torres.

The fossil is a specimen of a species called Vegavis iaai, which lived around 69 million years ago – more than 2 million ...

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 ...

A newly described fossil indicates that an early relative of ducks and geese called Vegavis iaai lived in Antarctica the same time that Tyrannosaurus rex was stomping around North America.

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 ...

A newly discovered fossil in Antarctica, estimated to be 68 million years old, reveals the oldest known modern bird, Vegavis iaai. This duck-sized bird had a mixture of modern and ancient features ...

It belongs to a species that was first identified two decades ago named Vegavis iaai, which lived in the late Cretaceous Period alongside the last dinosaurs. But because only fragments of skulls ...

The species, which scientists named Vegavis iaai, presented a puzzle: What bird was it a feather of? Nearly 20 years later, a 2011 Antarctic expedition turned up a bird skull that more recently ...

The Late Cretaceous modern bird, Vegavis iaai, pursuit diving for fish in the shallow ocean off the coast of the Antarctic peninsula, with ammonites and plesiosaurs for company. (Credit: Mark Witton, ...

A Cretaceous Period bird called Vegavis iaai pursuit diving for fish in the shallow ocean off the coast of the Antarctic peninsula, with nautilus-like ammonites and marine reptiles called ...