Location matters, as Antarctica may have served as a refuge ... But modern birds are exceptionally rare before the end-Cretaceous extinction, and more recent studies have cast doubt on the ...

"In the Antarctic circle, it has been proposed that Cretaceous [Victoria] experienced long periods of dark/light that the poles experience today," Kotevski said. "Thick forests lined this fast ...

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. (Credit: Mark ...

Also, what role, if any, did the asteroid impact that ended the Cretaceous have on modern ... spent decades analyzing Vegavis fossils from Antarctica. But what they have discovered is having ...

Southern Australia was close enough to the South Pole that it was within the Antarctic Circle during the Cretaceous, although the region was much warmer then than it is today. The team identified ...

It also lived during the Cretaceous and has primarily been found ... interchange between Australia and South America through Antarctica during the Early Cretaceous,” Thomas Rich, a senior ...

Here, the roles were reversed, highlighting the uniqueness of Australia’s Cretaceous ecosystem ... Australia and South America through Antarctica during the Early Cretaceous.

The new fossil unearthed on Vega Island near the Antarctic Peninsula of the ancient ... years before the asteroid strike at the end of the Cretaceous Period that wiped out the dinosaurs, aside ...

Where they lived: Dinosaur fossils have been found on every continent, including Antarctica. What they ate ... at the end of ...