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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Giant salamander-like creature was a top predator in the ice age before the dinosaurs
Forty million years before the first dinosaurs evolved ... And at that time, the Earth was nearing the end of an ice age. The swampy land near the equator was drying up and becoming more forested ...
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Loss of forests brought new birds to NZ during the last Ice Age – we’re witnessing a similar process now
Native birds responded to the Ice Age in a variety of ways. Kiwi populations became so isolated in forest patches they split into new lineages. Several moa species moved across the landscape ...