Ancient birds in the Arctic (IMAGE)

University of Alaska Fairbanks

Ancient birds in the Arctic

Caption

An illustration of Cretaceous Period birds with other dinosaurs from the same time period in the background. A paper in the journal Science documents the earliest-known example of birds nesting in the polar regions.

Credit

Illustration by Gabriel Ugueto

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