The Natural History Museum reported
An Antarctic discovery might offer new insights into the origins of modern birds.
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 dinosaurs millions of years ago – but the route from these avian ancestors to now is largely mysterious.
Read more Ancient bird skull from Antarctica might be from early duck relative | Natural History Museum
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