Does a duck always look like a duck and quack like a duck? Sixty-six million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period, ...

A 69 million-year-old skull fossil discovered in Antarctica is an ancient relative ... The first feature is the upper beak which is clearly a premaxilla bone. Secondly, the forebrain was much larger ...

The new skull of Vegavis iaai exhibits features consistent with modern birds, including a long, pointed beak characterized by the absence of teeth and a reduced maxilla, with a unique bone in the ...

It was collected during a 2011 expedition by the Antarctic Peninsula Paleontology Project. The skull has a long, pointed beak and a unique brain shape not seen in other birds from the Mesozoic Era.

A near-perfect fossilized skull discovered in Antarctica reveals the bridge between ... the mass extinction that wiped out all non-avian dinosaurs. It has a long pointed beak and a brain shape unlike ...

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For instance, the study noted that the skull preserves traces of a slender, pointed beak powered by enhanced jaw muscles, a feature that is more like diving birds than other known waterfowl.

The skull itself is long, with a pointed beak and a brain shape that is unique among all known birds previously discovered from the Mesozoic Era, which includes the Cretaceous Period. The features ...