The First Beak: A Bird in the Hand Merits Closer Inspection


Scientists at Yale have used CT scans to develop a better model of “the toothed bird”Ichthyornis. We’ve known about these creatures for a long time, but the new reconstruction indicates that in addition to teeth, Ichthyornis also had a small beak at the tip of its snoot:

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