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New Database Reveals Antarctica's Species Secrets
Global team of researchers compile comprehensive picture of the species found in world's most remote continent A pioneering ...
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Worst avian flu crisis ever recorded spreads across Antarctica
The jump of highly pathogenic avian influenza to people is one of the worst nightmares for virologists, but at the moment the ...
Scientists Just Found The Oldest Modern Bird Buried in the Antarctic Ice
For decades, scientists have wondered at the taxonomy of Vegavis iaai— an ancient avian specimen that lived in what is now ...
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Ancient duck-like creature discovered in Antarctica may be the oldest modern bird ever discovered
A new and nearly complete skull of Vegavis iaai discovered in Antarctica suggests that modern birds originated before the end ...
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Ancient bird skull from Antarctica might be from early duck relative
The skull, from an ancient relative of ducks and geese known as Vegavis iaai, suggests that the key characteristics of modern birds were already in place 69 million years ago. Birds evolved from ...