C Torres Ohio Lab_Vegavis_2025 (IMAGE)

Ohio University

C Torres Ohio Lab_Vegavis_2025

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Christopher Torres, former NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Ohio University and lead author of the paper describing a new skull of the 69-million-year-old bird, Vegavis iaai, that once inhabited the shallow oceans off the coast of present-day Antarctica.

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Ben Siegel (Ohio University), 2021.

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