Loon-like fossils trace a line back 110 million years to the earliest known ancestor of modern birds. Kasey-Dee Gardner reports.
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Loon-like fossils trace a line back 110 million years to the earliest known ancestor of modern birds. Kasey-Dee Gardner reports.
Added: Jun 19, 2006
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