Prehistoric bird fossil. Fossilised skeleton of an Ichthyornis sp. bird. Ichthyornis was a genus of toothed prehistoric seabirds that lived during the

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Prehistoric bird fossil. Fossilised skeleton of an Ichthyornis sp. bird. Ichthyornis was a genus of toothed prehistoric seabirds that lived during the Late Cretaceous period (around 100 to 66 million years ago), in what is now North America. 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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