Monday, July 25, 2011

70 million year old fossil bird bones found in 2006

In 2006 I found the bones of a fossil bird near Center Nebraska. The preparer at UNL, Greg Brown prepared these from the original jacket collected with Mike Voorhees of UNL at the site. These bones are yet to be studied or described. Bird fossils are extremely rare. Collecting this many bones  in good condition from one bird is quite a find. These bones are about 70 million years old.