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Parrot Fossil from the Cretaceous Pushes Back Origin of Modern Land Birds
Berkeleyan, the faculty staff newspaper of the University of California, talks about the discovery of the oldest fossil from a modern land bird.
www.berkeley.edu
Ancient Buzzing: German site yields early hummingbird fossils
Article from Science News Online reports that excavations in Germany have uncovered the oldest fossils of hummingbirds.
www.sciencenews.org
Description of the discovery of a toothed flying sea bird from the Late Cretaceous.
www.oceansofkansas.com
An overview of notable bird fossils.
www.ucmp.berkeley.edu
University of Oslo: Confuciusornis Sanctus
Description of a fossilized skeleton originating in China of the earliest known bird with a beak.
www.toyen.uio.no
A large flightless swimming bird from the Late Cretaceous is described.
www.bbc.co.uk
Carnegie Museum of Natural History News: Gansus
Press release talking about the discovery of fossils of an ancient aquatic bird. Includes photos of the fossils and pictures of what this bird might have looked like.
www.carnegiemnh.org
Talks about a bird discovered in Australia that lived 65 million years ago. Also describes "opposite birds", their characteristics, and their relationship to modern birds.
www.abc.net.au