Cretaceous Antarctic bird skull elucidates early avian ecological diversity. Nature, 2025; 638 (8049): 146 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-08390-0; Cite This Page: MLA; APA; Chicago; Ohio University.

Discover why Antarctica no longer has lush forests with giant ferns and how ancient fires fueled intense volcanic activity.

The Late Cretaceous modern (crown) bird,Vegavis iaai, pursuit diving for fish in the shallow ocean off the coast of the Antarctic peninsula, with ammonites and plesiosaurs forcompany. Sixty-six ...

Cretaceous Antarctic Bird Skull Elucidates Early Avian Ecological Diversity. Nature. Definitive Fossil Evidence for the Extant Avian Radiation in the Cretaceous. Sam Walters is a journalist covering ...

C.R. Torres et al/Nature 2025 Antarctica may have been a refuge for birds, including early waterfowl, to weather the end-Cretaceous mass extinction event about 66 million years ago.

Paleontologists have found the first complete skull of a controversial prehistoric bird. Known as Vegavis iaai, the bird thrived in late-Cretaceous Antarctica, then a tropical paradise. About a ...

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

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 ...

Today, Antarctica is a huge frozen continent, though it was once temperate enough to be covered in swampy forests. Now, a team of scientists has discovered fossilized tree resin—amber—on the ...

Finding amber in Antarctica doesn’t just add a chapter to Earth’s ancient story; it also holds clues for our future. The mid-Cretaceous was a greenhouse world, a model for what our warming ...

During the Cretaceous period, large parts of Antarctica were covered by a subtropical rainforest. (Image credit: J. McKay/Alfred-Wegener-Institut) ...

More information: Christopher Torres, Cretaceous Antarctic bird skull elucidates early avian ecological diversity, Nature ...