2025年2月5日 · A near complete skull fossil found in Antarctica has revealed the oldest known modern bird — a mallard duck-size creature related to the waterfowl that live by lakes and oceans today, a new study...

2020年3月18日 · The oldest fossil of a modern bird, dating from the age of dinosaurs, has been discovered by an international team of paleontologists.

2020年3月20日 · Roughly 66.8 million years ago—not long before the end-Cretaceous extinction that wiped out all non-avian dinosaurs—a diminutive, quail-sized bird met an unfortunate and untimely end.

3 天之前 · Scientists discovered two Jurassic bird fossils in China, pushing back bird diversification by 20 million years. One, Baminornis zhenghensis, had a short tail and mixed dinosaur-like and bird-like traits. ... The results showed that Baminornis zhenghensis was only just derived than Archaeopteryx and it represents one of the oldest birds.

2025年2月6日 · Long before Antarctica became the frozen desert we know it as today, it was the temperate, forested home of one of Earth’s earliest modern bird species: Vegavis iaai. V. iaai thrived in Antarctic waters during the Cretaceous Period some 69 million years ago.

2025年2月5日 · (CNN) — A near complete skull fossil found in Antarctica has revealed the oldest known modern bird — a mallard duck-size creature related to the waterfowl that live by lakes and oceans...

2025年2月7日 · A 69 million-year-old skull fossil discovered in Antarctica is an ancient relative of geese and ducks, making it the oldest known modern bird. The fossil was identified to be from a species discovered 20 years ago named Vegavis iaai.

2020年3月18日 · Behold the Wonderchicken, the earliest modern bird ever found. Asteriornis maastrichtensis lived 66.7 million years ago, less than a million years before the asteroid impact that doomed all...

2025年2月11日 · Intriguingly, scientists first discovered the headless fossilized specimen of V. iaai on an Antarctic island called Vega, which is the northernmost member of the James Ross Island group.

The oldest fossil of a modern bird yet found, dating from the age of dinosaurs, has been identified by an international team of palaeontologists. The spectacular fossil, affectionately nicknamed the ‘Wonderchicken’, includes a nearly complete skull, hidden inside nondescript pieces of rock, and dates from less than one million years before ...