For birds, a diving lifestyle seems irreversible, evolutionarily speaking. The inflexibility possibly increases diving birds’ chances of going extinct.

Diving birds follow each other when fishing. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2019 / 09 / 190923140759.htm. University of Exeter.

Birds that dive to hunt could have adapted into an evolutionary "dead end", according to new research. Scientists at the University of Bath found highly specialised species such as penguins and ...

Researchers recently fitted a South American sea bird called an imperial cormorant with a small camera, then watched stunned as it became 'superbird' -- diving 150 feet underwater in 40 seconds ...

In time, though, Hesperornis fell out of the evolutionary spotlight. The aquatic bird, which chased after fish in a shallow sea which cleft North America in two during the Late Cretaceous, was far ...

The diving bird was thousands of miles off course from its typical range. A rare diving bird called an ancient murrelet was spotted at a TN lake, which is a first for the Southeast, according to ...

A rare diving bird called an ancient murrelet was spotted at a TN lake, which is a first for the Southeast, according to experts.

There were various diving birds during the Cretaceous, including North America's Hesperornis, which reached about 6 feet (1.8 meters) long, but none are known from the area Natovenator inhabited.

A rare diving bird called an ancient murrelet was spotted at a TN lake, which is a first for the Southeast, according to experts.

Rare bird spotted diving in Tennessee lake, experts say. It’s a first for Southeast By Makiya Seminera. November 28, 2023 2:04 PM.

A rare diving bird called an ancient murrelet was spotted at a TN lake, which is a first for the Southeast, according to experts.