By: support Date: 08/11/2017
When two brothers were walking near a reservoir in a small town in northern Japan, one noticed something peculiar in the ground. The brothers collected a few of the intriguing pieces and took them to paleontologists at a nearby university.
The pieces turned out to be fossils of the oldest bird ever found in Japan: an ancient, toothed, diving bird whose species had never been identified by science.
Read more here: Brothers Unexpectedly Discover Fossil of Japan's Oldest Water Bird
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