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- The fossil remains of a 119-million-year-old beaked bird was recently discovered in China.
- It lived during the Early Cretaceous Period, around 119 million years ago in present-day China.
- It was belonged to the Confuciusornithidae family of the genus Confuciusornis, a group of crow-sized beaked birds.
- It is a group of Early Cretaceous pygostylian birds that were found in the Jehol Biota of East Asia.
- This group represents the earliest known toothless, beaked birds.
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