A newly analysed fossil skull settles a palaeontological debate over Vegavis iaai, confirming it as a relative of ducks and geese that lived 69 million years ago ...

(a) A Late Jurassic map showing the localities of Archaeopteryx in Solnhofen (Germany) as well as the newly described Baminornis zhenhensis with the first pygostyle and the unknown species with ...

Code used for generating figures is available on request. ~/Trees/best_scheme.txt is the output from PartitionFinder ~/Trees/Concatenated/ contains the final output from all analyses of concatenated ...

The findings follow last week's announcement of evidence that, near the end of the Cretaceous Period, the species Vegavis iaii had evolved sufficiently to be considered modern birds, specifically ...

Identified as Vegavis iaai, the specimen is closely related to modern ducks and geese, with skull features supporting its classification as a waterfowl.