Age-old relationship between birds and flowers: World’s oldest fossil of a nectarivorous bird
Thursday, May 29, 2014 - 05:31
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Scientists have described the oldest known fossil of a pollinating bird. The well-preserved stomach contents contained pollen from various flowering plants. This indicates that the relationship between birds and flowers dates back at least 47 million years. The fossil comes from the well-known fossil site “Messel Pit.”