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.

"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 ...

A newly studied Vegavis iaai skull from Antarctica confirms that modern bird lineages, like ducks and geese, were evolving alongside non-avian dinosaurs. This study supports Vegavis' placement in the ...

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

through Antarctica, into South America and attain a larger size. It also paints a picture of what life was like here in Victoria in the Cretaceous period and the amazing, terrifying creatures that ...

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 ...

Dinosaurs are the extinct relatives of birds that roamed the lands and seas of ancient Earth. They first appeared around 240 ...

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 ...

Victoria was positioned within the Antarctic Circle, separated from Tasmania by a vast rift valley rather than open sea. This was the Early Cretaceous, and lush forests filled with dinosaurs dominated ...

Victoria was positioned within the Antarctic Circle, separated from Tasmania by a vast rift valley rather than open sea. This was the Early Cretaceous, and lush forests filled with dinosaurs dominated ...