Scientists acquired the bird foot from a local trader.
, acquired the 3.5 centimeter long block of amber from a local trader, who thought it contained a lizard's foot.
This photograph shows a nearly 100-million-year-old bird foot featuring a very long toe preserved in amber. The specimen also contains the bird's left wing tip."Although I've never seen a bird claw that looks like this before, I know it's a bird.
The authors of the paper think this is the first time a bird with this type of foot shape has been found. They believe the bird probably mostly lived in the trees, and might have used its huge toes to pick food out of bark, similarly to the aye-aye lemur. "This is the best guess we have," O'Connor says."There is no bird with a similar morphology that could be considered a modern analog for this fossil bird. A lot of ancient birds were probably doing completely different things than living birds. This fossil exposes a different ecological niche that these early birds were experimenting as they evolved.
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