Tiny Fossil Reveals Previously Unknown Songbird Lineage from New Zealand

Oct 27, 2025 - 01:15
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Tiny Fossil Reveals Previously Unknown Songbird Lineage from New Zealand
Life reconstruction of the St Bathans bowerbird (Aeviperditus gracilis). Image credit: Sasha Votyakova / Te Papa / CC BY 4.0.

Paleontologists have found the 2.9-cm-long fossilized foot bone of a possible bowerbird species at the Miocene locality of St Bathans in Aotearoa New Zealand.

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