A prehistoric bird, akin to modern-day loons and grebes, has been identified as the oldest known ancestor of all living birds. The near-complete fossil skull ... not have a bill like a duck.

and the Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum in Frankfurt report on the bird's fully preserved skull in the journal Palaeontologia Electronica. The fossil was unearthed in the ...

An international team of researchers report on the bird's fully preserved skull. The fossil was unearthed in the 1950s in a former lignite mining area in the Geiseltal in Germany. It was initially ...