A Really, Really Ex-Parrot

Posted by kdawson on Friday June 20, 2008 @02:32AM from the joining-the-choir-invisible dept.

gyrogeerloose writes "According to a National Geographic News story, what may be the fossilized wing bone of an ancient parrot has been dubbed by its discoverers 'The Danish Blue' in honor of the famous Dead Parrot Sketch. If the 54 million year old bone did in fact belong to a parrot, it would be 'the oldest and most northerly remains of a parrot ever discovered.' There is some dispute among paleontologists about whether the bone was indeed that of a parrot. If it turns out to be so, however, it never had a chance to pine for the fjords — they were not carved out until an ice age millions of years after the bird lived."

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Berift of life, it rested in peace by russlar · 2008-06-20 02:33 · Score: 5, Funny

...until you dug it up, you insensitive clods!

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Re: Danish Blue by DogDaySunrise · 2008-06-20 02:34 · Score: 5, Informative

Er... Shouldn't that be the 'Norwegian Blue'? :o\
Obligatory by Born2bwire · 2008-06-20 02:36 · Score: 5, Funny

It's not dead, it's resting!
Right, that does it. by Rob+T+Firefly · 2008-06-20 03:08 · Score: 5, Funny

I didn't want to be a Slashdotter anyway..

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