Tag: ichthyornis
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CBC Quirks & Quarks – A new fossil reveals the first bird beak – and it came with teeth as well
CBC’s Quirks & Quarks has a segment about the first known bird beak. It belongs to Ichthyornis a bird that dates to about 80 million years ago, during the Cretaceous Period. The species was first identified in the 1870’s and named by Othniel Charles Marsh, of Yale’s Peabody Museum of Natural History. The original paper…
