Neocathartes

fossil bird

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In bird: Modern birds
…this period was fossils of Neocathartes, a long-legged bird allied to the New World vultures. There are several anatomical similarities between this group of vultures and the storks, and the existence of this fossil lends support to the idea that the storks and New World vultures are more closely related…
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