Fish-eating enantiornithine bird provides evidence of modern avian digestive features
In a paper published April 28 in the journal of Current Biology, Drs. WANG Min, ZHOU Zhonghe and Corwin Sullivan, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, reported a new piscivorous enantiornithine from the Early Cretaceous Jehol Biota of China. This specimen preserves a gastric pellet that includes fish bones, and is the oldest birds’ pellet dating back 120 million years ago.
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