Ancient birds may have lost teeth to get

[Still Waters]

In a new research, scientists have suggested that ancient birds lost their teeth in order to shed some weight to get airborne.

Archaeopteryx, at 150 million years old still the oldest known bird, had an imposing set of teeth. But within 20 million years, at least some birds were toothless.

A team led by Zhonghe Zhou at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing says that they know the reason behind this phenomenon.

They discovered Zhongjianornis yangi, a toothless bird from 22 million years ago in China’s Liaoning province.

Their analysis shows that Z. yangi belonged to one of four bird groups that independently lost their teeth, implying that this loss was no evolutionary fluke.

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[UltraThunderMan]

That's bad for them, now they can't eat sandwiches.

[xYlvax]

That's bad for them, now they can't eat sandwiches.

Lol

Yeah, or anything but pudding

[ShadowSot]

That's bad for them, now they can't eat sandwiches.

Please.... y'ever tried to eat a sammich in a flock of seagulls?

[www375]

That's bad for them, now they can't eat sandwiches.

Mmmmm...........Black Forest Ham...........grahghh.gra.gra...............

[SameerPrehistorica]

There were giant birds..They can swallow.