{"id":4131,"date":"2025-02-05T20:34:52","date_gmt":"2025-02-05T20:34:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/the-search-for-the-original-silly-goose-in-the-fossil-record\/"},"modified":"2025-02-05T20:34:52","modified_gmt":"2025-02-05T20:34:52","slug":"the-search-for-the-original-silly-goose-in-the-fossil-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/the-search-for-the-original-silly-goose-in-the-fossil-record\/","title":{"rendered":"The Search for the Original Silly Goose in the Fossil Record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">It\u2019s taken decades, but scientists may have finally found Earth\u2019s first fowl.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">It started in 1993 on Vega Island, a frigid, windswept rock off the Antarctic Peninsula. A mostly headless skeleton of a loon-size diving bird emerged from rocks that, at 68 million years old, predated the dinosaur extinction. The species, which scientists named <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/10\/13\/science\/oldest-bird-voice-box-syrinx.html\" title=\"\">Vegavis iaai<\/a>, presented a puzzle: What bird was it a feather of?<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Nearly 20 years later, a 2011 Antarctic expedition turned up a bird skull that more recently was matched with Vegavis iaai. In an analysis published <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-024-08390-0\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Wednesday in the journal Nature<\/a>, researchers are sticking their necks out to suggest that the mysterious Antarctic avian is an ancient relative of today\u2019s geese and ducks, and the oldest known modern bird.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIt\u2019s exactly the kind of thing we need to help fill in an evolutionary gap,\u201d said Christopher Torres, a paleontologist at Ohio University and an author on the paper. But he conceded, \u201cthat\u2019s also what makes it so incredibly controversial.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In the past few decades, Dr. Torres said, researchers looking at bird genomics suggested that some modern bird families \u2014 particularly waterfowl and game fowl \u2014 probably appeared before the asteroid impact that wiped out the non-avian dinosaurs. But before the discovery of Vegavis in the 1990s, no characteristic fossils had been identified, leaving a gap between molecular data and rocky physical evidence.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The mixture of archaic and modern skeletal traits in the original Vegavis specimen also made it difficult to place, said Chase Brownstein, a paleontologist at Yale University who was not involved in the research. Some researchers suggested that Vegavis might have been one of several families of extinct Mesozoic birds \u2014 some with toothed bills and clawed wing-fingers \u2014 that didn\u2019t survive the Cretaceous period extinction. Others believed it was a modern bird, closer to loons, grebes or geese.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The skull found in 2011 helped breach this prehistoric logjam.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The researchers of the new paper generated a near-complete three-dimensional reconstruction of the bird\u2019s head. They found that Vegavis had the toothless beak and brain shape characteristic of modern birds, Dr. Torres said, as well as specific skull traits that they argue suggest the bird is closely related to modern waterfowl. But \u2014 and here\u2019s the silly part \u2014 the skull is quite different from those of living ducks or geese. Its beak was long and pointed. It had large glands to remove salt from the body, and powerful jaw muscles that allowed the bird to snap its jaws quickly underwater.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The entire skeleton points toward a bird that dove underwater after fish and propelled itself with powerful kicking legs, Dr. Torres said. That is unlike any modern water fowl, \u201cand much more similar to what we see in modern loons and <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.allaboutbirds.org\/guide\/Western_Grebe\/overview\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">grebes<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Despite the bird\u2019s loony body plan and head, the fine details of its skull \u2014 including its jaw and beak \u2014 show specific traits that suggest waterfowl, Dr. Torres said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">While Mr. Brownstein called the discovery of the Vegavis skull \u201cexciting,\u201d he isn\u2019t convinced that it\u2019s enough to settle the debate over the animal\u2019s identity \u2014 or to clarify when bird lineages like waterfowl appeared. But even the most conservative interpretation of the skull indicates that modern birds and their closest toothless relatives were extremely anatomically diverse at the end of the Cretaceous period, he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Others are more enthusiastic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The fact that a bird with such modern features was around by the end of the dinosaurs\u2019 reign suggests that other major lineages of living birds were likely present as well, said Gerardo \u00c1lvarez Herrera, a paleontologist with the Bernardino Rivadavia Natural Sciences Argentine Museum who was not involved in the study. It\u2019s possible that further exploration will uncover \u201cthe ancestors of ostriches, fowls, neoaves and ducks that may have roamed alongside non-avian dinosaurs.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/05\/science\/goose-duck-fossil.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s taken decades, but scientists may have finally found Earth\u2019s first fowl. 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