Newly Discovered Fossil Named For David Attenborough Pushes Back Era of Toothless Birds by 50 Million Years

 

No birds alive today have teeth. But that wasn’t always the case—many early fossil birds had beaks full of sharp, tiny teeth. Now though, in a paper in the journal Cretaceous Research, scientists have described a new species of bird that was the first of its kind to evolve toothless-ness; its name, in honor of […]

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