55-million-year-old fossil bird reveals how trogons evolved their unusual feet; reversed toe came before the big toe shrank
- PC: Journal of Systematic PalaeontologyA fossil bird from Denmark is helping researchers understand how the unusual feet of modern trogons evolved.
- The fossil belongs to a species called Daniatrogon kochi, which lived about 55 million years ago during the Early Eocene.
- Researchers found the fossil in 1989 on the Danish island of Mors in the Fur Formation.
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- PC: Journal of Systematic PalaeontologyA fossil bird from Denmark is helping researchers understand how the unusual feet of modern trogons evolved.
- The fossil belongs to a species called Daniatrogon kochi, which lived about 55 million years ago during the Early Eocene.
- Researchers found the fossil in 1989 on the Danish island of Mors in the Fur Formation.
Sources: Times of India