They are found in the Arctic, which in those days was quite a warm place
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American paleontologists from the University of Rochester, found on the canadian island of Axel Heiberg fossil bones of an ancient bird. Experts suggest that it lived in the Arctic, about 90 million years ago and had a pretty impressive size.
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Full length discovered bones up to 12 inches, from what the experts concluded that the bird was big. In all likelihood, it fed on fish, which reached half a meter in length. The bird, which was named Tingmiatornis arctica knew how to fly and swim, and presumably even diving.
a study of the remains has allowed indirectly confirm the assumption that 90 years ago the Arctic was much warmer than today, writes “the Russian newspaper” According to existing concepts, in warm years the temperature there has reached 35 degree Celsius and the average temperature for the year was about 14 degrees. Earlier in favor of this theory witness and other finds — including ancient shells, also found on the same island.
Earlier, a group of paleontologists from China found in amber are two very small wings that belonged to a bird who lived on Earth nearly 100 million years ago. The find was made in the territory of Myanmar. And before that, scientists led by Derek Larsen from the University of Toronto suggested that the birds and their ancestors, the feathered dinosaurs to survive the dinosaurs allowed in the first place, the bill is allowed to include in the diet the seeds, although the plants were difficult to grow in the new conditions, their seed was still retained in considerable quantities, and the ancestors of birds learned to eat, managed to take a pretty good ecological niche.
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