The skull exhibits a long, pointed beak and a brain shape unique among all known birds previously discovered from the ...

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Lucas Atwell CC BY-SA 3.0 Everyone knows about the mass extinction that ended the Age of Dinosaurs. About 66 million years ago, a seven-mile-wide asteroid slammed into our planet and began a mass ...

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