New fossil species suggests tropicbirds originated in Zealandia

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Sep 1, 2023, 1:18 pm202 pts
A team of paleontologists from the University of Canterbury has discovered a remarkably intact fossil of one of the earliest ancestors of a group of birds now restricted to the tropics. Tropicbirds, now represented by only three living species, have a long fossil record spanning at least 62.5 million years,…

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