Paleontologists Find Rare Skull of Extinct Flightless Bird

Paleontologists Find Rare Skull of Extinct Flightless Bird
Skull remains of Diatryma geiselensis from the Middle Eocene of the Geisel valley, Germany. Scale bars - 5 cm. Image credit: Mayr et al., doi: 10.26879/1438.

A nearly complete but strongly flattened skull of the ancient bird species Diatryma geiselensis has been discovered, after being misidentified and kept in a museum collection in Germany for over six decades.

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 A nearly complete but strongly flattened skull of the ancient bird species Diatryma geiselensis has been discovered, after being misidentified and kept in a museum collection in Germany for over six decades.
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