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Wonder Chicken
April 9 , 2020
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- The oldest fossil of a modern bird, dating from the age of dinosaurs, has been discovered.
- The tiny fossil is nicknamed the "wonder chicken”.
- It was found in the limestone of Sint-Pietersberg near Maastricht at Netherlands.
- It dates to more than 66 million years ago.
- This is one of the best-preserved fossil bird skulls of any age.
- The fossil provides the best evidence yet of when and how the earliest ancestors of today’s birds evolved.
- Maastricht became well known through the Maastricht Treaty and as the birthplace of the euro in 1992.
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