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Bony Toothed Birds - Pelagornithids
September 24 , 2019
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- Scientists have discovered fossils of one of the world’s oldest bird species in New Zealand.
- They had lived about 62 million years ago, soon after the dinosaurs died.
- The newly-discovered seabird fossil is named as Protodontopteryx ruthae.
- Earlier, bony toothed birds were thought to originate from Northern Hemisphere.
- It is now proven wrong because of this fossil from New Zealand.
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