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An 80-Million-Year-Old Bird Skull Fossil Was Found In Brazil, And It's One Of The Rarest Finds Of Its Kind
The fossil was exceptionally well-preserved and was named Navaornis hestiae. The bird was roughly the size of a starling and lived about 80 million years ago in what is now Brazil before the mass ...
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Artist's impression of Navaornis CREDIT JÚLIA D'OLIVEIRA (IMAGE)
A ‘one of a kind’ fossil discovery could transform our understanding of how the unique brains and intelligence of modern birds evolved, one of the most enduring mysteries of vertebrate evolution.