Field Museum: Fossil Named 'Attenborough's Strange Bird' Was the First of Its Kind Without Teeth
March 06, 2024
March 06, 2024
CHICAGO, Illinois, March 6 -- The Field Museum issued the following news release on March 4, 2024:
No birds alive today have teeth. But that wasn't always the case--many early fossil birds had beaks full of sharp, tiny teeth. In a paper in the journal Cretaceous Research, scientists have described a new species of fossil bird that was the first of its kind to evolve toothless-ness; its name, in honor of naturalist Sir David Attenborough, means "Attenborough's strange . . .
No birds alive today have teeth. But that wasn't always the case--many early fossil birds had beaks full of sharp, tiny teeth. In a paper in the journal Cretaceous Research, scientists have described a new species of fossil bird that was the first of its kind to evolve toothless-ness; its name, in honor of naturalist Sir David Attenborough, means "Attenborough's strange . . .