The Earliest Bird To Sip a Flower

sciencehabit (1205606) writes "Researchers have unearthed the earliest evidence of a bird sipping nectar from a flower. The stomach contents of the 47-million-year-old fossil flyer — a long-extinct species of perching bird — include hundreds of grains of pollen. The ancient pollen grains are large and apparently clumped together readily, a clue that the plant that bore the flowers was pollinated by creatures and not by the wind."

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Re:It seems unlikely

[Anonymous Coward]

The title is inaccurate, but the summary is accurate, as it states "the earliest evidence of" not "the first bird."

Some missing information

[Sique]

What's missing is where the scientist found the remainings of the bird, and who those scientists were.

The site is the wellknown Messel pit, an UNESCO World Nature Heritage site. The scientists were a team from the nearby Senckenberg Museum.