So how are birds of prey different from other birds? MIKE: Birds of prey have got some special features. If you look at this skull here. This is from a tawny owl. All birds of prey have got very ...

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 ...

The nearly complete skull of Vegavis iaai, a duck-sized bird that lived 69 million years ago, reveals that modern birds — those with toothless beaks and specialized brains — were already ...

The skull itself is long, with a pointed beak and a brain shape that is unique among all known birds previously discovered from the Mesozoic Era, which includes the Cretaceous Period. The features ...

Matthew Lamanna, of Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Museum of Natural History. The skull itself is long, with a pointed beak and a brain shape that is unique among all known birds previously discovered from the ...

Vegavis appears to have been ecologically specialized to pursue fish and other prey underwater ... Functionally, its skull is similar to that of loons and grebes - birds that snap their jaws ...