Prehistoric bird fossil. Fossilised skeleton of a Messelornis sp. prehistoric bird found in Germany. This European bird is an extinct relative of the

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Prehistoric bird fossil. Fossilised skeleton of a Messelornis sp. prehistoric bird found in Germany. This European bird is an extinct relative of the sunbittern (Eurypyga helias). Photographed at the In the Shadow of the Dinosaurs exhibition at the National Museum of Natural History, Paris, France, in 2011.

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