Fossils of birds from 30 million years ago discovered
Polish researchers have discovered fossils of a new bird species that lived on Earth 30 million years ago near the city of Rzeszow in Poland.
This information was published in a recent issue of the Polish scientific journal Ornithology.
The previously unknown bird of the Passerine order, named Resoviyaornis Yamrozy, is named after the city of Rzeszow, which in Latin is pronounced Resoviya, and Yamrozy is named after the paleontologist Albin Yamroza, who discovered the fossil of this bird on the banks of a small stream near the city of Rzeszow.
According to the hypothesis, this bird drowned in the ocean that in ancient times covered the southeastern part of present-day Poland. Scientists believe that Resoviyaornis Yamrozy lived on Earth during the late Paleogene - Oligocene period, about 38 to 25 million years ago.
Zbigniew Bochensky, a scientist at the Institute of Systematics and Evolution of the Polish Academy of Sciences, said the Resoviyaornis Yamrozy was about the size of a sparrow with long legs, suggesting it spent more time on the ground than flying. The shape of its beak also suggests it ate insects and berries.
Resoviyaornis Yamrozy is the third Oligocene bird species of the order Passeriformes discovered by scientists to date.
Researcher Bochensky emphasized that this discovery by Polish scientists is a valuable information about the first evolutionary stages of the Passeriformes, which is currently the most diverse order in terms of species on Earth. For every 10,000 birds today, nearly 5,400 belong to the Passeriformes./.
According to (TTXVN) - VT
