Vegavis was the size of a mallard but did not have a bill like a duck. It instead had a spear-shaped beak like a loon. Its ...

VEGA ISLAND: Near the end of the age of dinosaurs, a bird resembling today’s loons and grebes dove for fish and other prey in ...

Vegavis was the size of a mallard but did not have a bill like a duck. It instead had a spear-shaped beak like a loon. Its skeletal structure indicates that it dove for its dinner. "Vegavis almost ...

Vegavis was the size of a mallard but did not have a bill like a duck. It instead had a spear-shaped beak like a loon. Its skeletal structure indicates that it dove for its dinner. “Vegavis ...

Thanks to a nearly complete fossil skull, scientists now have identified this waterfowl as the oldest-known member of the lineage spanning all birds alive today. Copy article link ...

Loon-like waterfowl from dinosaur-era Antarctica is oldest 'modern' bird Fossils of Vegavis were first described two decades ago. But without sufficient cranial remains its place on the bird ...