The first modern bird was discovered in an Antarctic Cretaceous fossil.
The age-old question: Does a duck always look and quack like a duck? is explored via new hints By Ohio University All known non-avian dinosaurs went extinct during the end of the Cretaceous Period, roughly 66 million years ago, due to an asteroid collision close to Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula. However, surviving that catastrophic extinction event was like water off a duck's back for the early ancestors of modern waterfowl. Location is important because Antarctica might have been a haven, shielded from the chaos occur...