Sixty-six million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period, an asteroid impact near the Yucat n Peninsula of Mexico triggered the extinction of all known non-bird dinosaurs. But for the early ...
A few fossilized body parts hinted at an enigmatic bird's close ties to waterfowl like ducks and geese. A newfound skull may bolster that idea.
Sixty-six million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period ... surviving that mass extinction event was like…water off a duck's back. Location matters, as Antarctica may have served ...
The new skull exhibits a long, pointed beak and a brain shape unique among all known birds previously discovered from the ...
Newsweek on MSN12d
What Does 66 Million-Year Old Fossilized Vomit Tell Us?A fossil hunter found a lump of prehistoric vomit roughly dated to the time of the mass extinction that wiped out the ...
The Late Cretaceous modern (crown ... But for the early ancestors of today’s waterfowl, surviving that mass extinction event was like…water off a duck’s back. Location matters, as Antarctica ...
The new skull exhibits a long, pointed beak and a brain shape unique among all known birds previously discovered from the ...
A 68-million-year-old skull fossil found in Antarctica has revealed the oldest known modern bird, which was likely related to ...
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This 69-Million-Year-Old Duck-like Skull Reveals How Modern Birds Survived the DinosaursThe discovery of a 69-million-year-old bird fossil is reshaping our understanding of avian evolution.
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