120-Million-Year-Old Fossil Reveals Early Bird’s Leaf-Eating Habits

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – A new type of analysis of a spectacular 120-million-year-old fossil skeleton of the extinct early bird Jeholornis from northeastern China has revealed the oldest evidence for birds eating leaves, marking the earliest known evolution of arboreal plant-eating among birds. Reconstruction of the extinct, tree-living, vegetarian early Cretaceous bird Jeholornis […]