Posts Tagged ‘Calciavis grandei’

WFS News: Calciavis grandei, Ostrich relative lived in North America about 50 million years ago

Exceedingly well-preserved bird fossil specimens dating 50 million years represent a new species that is a previously unknown relative of the modern-day ostrich, according to a new paper co-authored by Sterling Nesbitt of Virginia Tech’s College of Science and part of the university’s Global Change Center. The bird fossils were found more than a decade […]