One of the world’s oldest flying seabird fossils discovered
Canterbury Museum, Scoop, Sci-Tech, New Zealand,
January 22, 2014 (One of the world’s oldest flying seabird
fossils discovered in North Canterbury)
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/SC1401/S00046/one-of-the-worlds-oldest-flying-seabird-fossils-discovered.htm
Fossil discovery sheds light on unknown bird by Sarah-Jane
O'Connor, Stuff.co.nz, January 22, 2014
http://www.stuff.co.nz/science/9637869/Fossil-discovery-sheds-light-on-unknown-bird
The paper is:
Mayr, G., and R. P. Scofield, 2014, First diagnosable
non-sphenisciform bird from the early Paleocene of New
Zealand. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand.
Received: 19 Aug 2013, Accepted: 23 Oct 2013
Published online: 21 Jan 2014
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03036758.2013.863788
Yours,
Paul H.