Paleontologists from the United States and Australia have discovered and described a new, nearly complete skull of Vegavis iaai, a foot-propelled diver bird species that lived in Antarctica during the latest Cretaceous, between 69.2 and 68.4 million years ago. The new fossil provides insight into the bird’s feeding ecology and exhibits morphologies that support placement among waterfowl within crown-group (modern) birds.
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