Fossil skull of giant toothy seabird found in Peru
February 28, 2009 By ANDREW WHALEN , Associated Press Writer
A paleontologist cleans a fossilized bird cranium at Peru's National History Museum in Lima, Friday, Feb. 27, 2009. The fossil found in Peru is the best-preserved cranium ever found from a pelagornithid, a species believed to have gone extinct some 3 million years ago, according to Rodolfo Salas, head of vertebrate paleontology at Peru's National History Museum. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)
(AP) -- The unusually intact fossilized skull of a giant, bony-toothed seabird that lived up to 10 million years ago was found on Peru's arid southern coast, researchers said Friday.
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