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 ...

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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 ...

As detailed in a study published Wednesday in the journal Nature, the researchers claim the fossil to be the oldest known modern bird and thus definitive proof that modern birds developed ...

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. Credits: El fosilmaníaco, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia ...

Credit: Mark Witton, 2025. Cretaceous fossils of early bird lineages are rare but important for understanding ecological shifts in bird evolution. One of the oldest known crown birds is Vegavis Iaai, ...

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 has ...