NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Emily Kwong and Regina Barber of Short Wave about the fluid dynamics of crowds, an early fossil of a modern bird and new data on how people's moods change through the day.
CHANG: Which sounds kind of unsafe ... We do know that this ancient bird, Vegavis, used its legs to dive underwater and swim to catch fish. It had a very strong jaw, probably to quickly snap ...
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Paleontologists Discovered the Oldest Modern Bird Ever Found, Which Might Have Shared the World with a T. RexA newly unearthed 69-million-year-old fossil is shaking up long-standing debates among paleontologists about when modern ...
A fossilised bird skull found in Antarctica reveals evolutionary links between Vegavis iaai and modern waterfowl species.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Skull of ancient bird Vegavis is 69 million years old Key traits define Vegavis as anatomically modern bird Antarctica had a temperate climate during Cretaceous Period Feb 5 (Reuters ...
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