Aug 24, 2020 · Modern birds exhibit a myriad of forms, with more than 10,000 species alive today. They are found on every major landmass and body of water on Earth and have evolved to …

May 1, 2014 · Birds are one of just three groups of vertebrates ever to have evolved active, flapping flight. The other two are the ill-fated pterosaurs and the bats, which appeared much …

Apr 2, 2024 · The largest study ever undertaken of modern bird genomes, the scientists combined genomic data of more than 360 bird species with data from nearly 200 bird fossils to reconstruct the most well-supported Tree of Life for modern birds.

Jul 26, 2024 · All modern birds are members of Neornithes. The model produced by Eliason and his colleagues suggests that the common ancestor of all Neornithes, 80 million years ago, had iridescent feathers that still glitter across the bird family tree.

1 day ago · The fossil suggests that modern birds evolved before the dinosaur-killing asteroid, perhaps in Antarctica Margherita Bassi Daily Correspondent An illustration of the Vegavis iaai diving for fish ...

1 day ago · A near-perfect fossilized skull discovered in Antarctica reveals the bridge between prehistoric and modern birds, a new study has found. The fossil is a specimen of a species called Vegavis iaai, which lived around 69 million years ago – more than 2 million years before the mass extinction that ...

Apr 2, 2024 · The research revealed that most modern bird groups appeared within a very small evolutionary window of only five million years. These findings support the hypothesis that birds made the most of opportunities after an asteroid struck earth 66 …

2 days ago · A new and nearly complete skull of Vegavis iaai discovered in Antarctica suggests that modern birds originated before the end-Cretaceous mass extinction.

Apr 3, 2024 · The largest study ever undertaken of modern bird genomes, the scientists combined genomic data of more than 360 bird species with data from nearly 200 bird fossils to reconstruct the most...

Jan 20, 2023 · A team of researchers from the University of Cambridge and the Natuurhistorisch Museum Maastricht discovered that a crucial skull feature of modern birds, the mobile beak, had developed prior to the mass extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago.