Researchers from the Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum in Frankfurt and the Senckenberg Center for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment at the University of Tübingen have discovered the fossil remains of a previously unknown species of prehistoric waterfowl in the Hammerschmiede clay pit. Allgoviachen tortonica, as the researchers named the new species, populated the southern German region around eleven million years ago. The findings suggest that these birds lived not only on the ground, but also in trees, and were about the size of modern-day Egyptian geese. The researchers’ study was recently published in the journal Historical Biology.
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Source: Phys.org