55-million-year-old parrot remains found
by friver ~ May 26th, 2008. Filed under: Strange Animals, Strange Research.
Above is an artist’s representation of the Mopsitta tanta, nicknamed ‘Danish Blue Parrot’ after the monty python comedy sketch.
Fossil remains of the Mopsitta tanta were recently found in Scandinavia and are dated as being 55 million years old. Previously, the oldest parrot fossils found in the Southern Hemisphere were only about 15 million years old.
The ancient parrots however, did not coexist with dinosaurs, which were wiped out about 10 million years prior to their appearance.
May 27th, 2008 at 6:24 am
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