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Ancient Bird Coughed Up 'Fishy' Pellet


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Ancient Bird Coughed Up 'Fishy' Pellet 120 Million Years Ago

About 120 million years ago, a bird dunked its beak into the water, caught a fish and, after digesting the meal, coughed up a pellet full of fish bones. The bird died moments later, but now its fossils are the oldest evidence of a bird pellet on record, a new study reported. The pellet — the first that is unambiguously from a bird that lived during the Mesozoic, the age of the dinosaurs — indicates that the ancient bird had a two-chambered stomach, much like birds do today, the researchers said.

Read more: Live Science

 

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I dont get it this bird died, by coughing up fish bones, which this bird suppose to do, right?

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