Pelagornithidae - Wikipedia
The Pelagornithidae, commonly called pelagornithids, pseudodontorns, bony-toothed birds, false-toothed birds or pseudotooth birds, are a prehistoric family of large seabirds. Their fossil remains have been found all over the world in rocks dating between the Early Paleocene and the Pliocene - Pleistocene boundary.
During the Age of Dinosaurs, Some Birds Sported Toothy Grins
2023年10月12日 · Many toothed birds fluttered among ancient forests, plucking insects out of the air and eating fruit from the trees of their time.
Scientists Reveal What May Be the Largest Flying Bird Ever
2020年10月26日 · By 50 million years ago, there were bony-toothed birds from the size of a modern-day albatross to giants with wingspans twice as wide. The next closet fossil contender is an extinct vulture...
The Echoes of Toothed Birds - National Geographic
2015年5月22日 · Best known by, as you might guess, Hesperornis – these toothed birds pioneered the diving lifestyle between 113 and 66 million years ago. Today’s grebes and loons look like edentulous echos of...
Antarctica yields oldest fossils of giant birds with 21-foot …
2020年10月27日 · The new research documents that these extinct, predatory, large- and giant-sized bony-toothed birds were part of the Antarctic ecosystem for over 10 million years, flying side-by-side over the heads of swimming penguins.
Giant, Toothed Birds Once Ruled The Skies - Science Friday
2021年1月8日 · New research, published in Scientific Reports late last year, reveals that by the time the pelagornithids had been around for 12 million years, they’d already evolved to gigantic sizes never seen since in birds. They had 6-meter wingspans, nearly twice …
Toothy Grins from the Past - Natural History Museum
Toothed birds went extinct along with their giant cousins, and modern dinosaurs –birds– are famously toothless. Paleontologists have known that toothed birds lived in the Mesozoic since the discovery of the iconic Archaeopteryx in the 19th century.
Pelagornithidae - A-Z Animals
2024年5月27日 · Pelagornithidae lived for several million years until they disappeared roughly three million years ago. The prehistoric family of large seabirds was also known by other common names such as bony-toothed birds, pelagornithids, pseudodontorns, false-toothed birds, or pseudo-toothed birds.
New Fossils of Giant Bony-Toothed Birds Found in Antarctica
2020年10月28日 · Paleontologists have described new fossils of pelagornithid birds from the middle Eocene Submeseta Formation on Seymour Island, Antarctica. An artist’s depiction of ancient albatrosses harassing a pelagornithid as penguins frolic in the oceans around Antarctica 50 million years ago.
Earliest fossils of giant-sized bony-toothed birds (Aves ... - Nature
2020年10月26日 · Bony-toothed birds (Odontopterygiformes: Pelagornithidae) are an extinct clade of large, pelagic, volant birds with a fossil record spanning from the late Paleocene to the late Pliocene 1, 2, 3...