Sororavis solitarius Mayr & Kitchener, reconstruction of a fossil bird from the early Eocene of Great Britain, just having been described.

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Sororavis solitarius, a new stem-passeriform from the #Eocene

https://www.app.pan.pl/article/item/app010492022.html

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Multiple skeletons of Rhynchaeites from the London Clay reveal the osteology of early Eocene ibises (Aves, Threskiornithidae)

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12542-022-00647-1?awc=26429_1674684874_9f23e671f5e994e4e78585c4cd068d3f&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_source=awin&utm_campaign=CONR_BOOKS_ECOM_DE_PHSS_ALWYS_DEEPLINK&utm_content=textlink&utm_term=85386

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Psittacopedids and zygodactylids: The diverse and species-rich psittacopasserine birds from the early Eocene London Clay of Walton-on-the-Naze (Essex, UK)

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08912963.2022.2141629

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New species from the early Eocene London Clay suggest an undetected early Eocene diversity of the Leptosomiformes, an avian clade that includes a living fossil from Madagascar

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12549-022-00560-0

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... a little reconstruction of Brevirostruavis macrohyoideus, a #fossil enantiornithine #bird from the early Cretaceous of China, only described in 2021

This species is thought to have had a long tongue like a woodpecker that it would have used to extract insects from crevices.

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... a little reconstruction of Brevirostruavis macrohyoideus, a #fossil enantiornithine #bird from the early Cretaceous of China, only described in 2021

This species is thought to have had a long tongue like a woodpecker that it would have used to extract insects from crevices.

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Most of the time I'm doing things like this ... sketching.

These are two small, fossil Agapornids that have not yet been named; their remains were found at Plovers Lake, South Africa and are dated to the late Middle Pleistocene; they were smaller than any of their living congeners.

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