CHINA-INNER MONGOLIA-FOSSIL (CN)

CHINA-INNER MONGOLIA-FOSSIL (CN)

(231008) -- SONID LEFT BANNER, Oct. 8, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Staff members check a fossilized piece of a humerus belonging to a Platybelodon in Sonid Left Banner of Xilin Gol League, north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Sept. 6, 2023. TO GO WITH "Humerus fossil of 15-mln-year-old herbivore to be displayed in China's Inner Mongolia" (Xinhua)

World's largest seabird fossil unearthed in Japan

World's largest seabird fossil unearthed in Japan

IWAI, Japan - The photo (bottom) shows what is believed to be the world's largest bone fossil, a humerus, ever discovered of ''plotopteridae,'' a diving seabird that resembled a penguin, researcher Takashige Kawano, 52, of Saga Prefecture, announces at a conference of the Palaeontological Society of Japan in the city of Iwai, Ibaraki Prefecture, on Jan. 28. Above it is the plotopteridae humerus previously discovered. The fossil was discovered in April 1996 under a layer of earth, estimated to be 34 million years old, by Kawano, in the town of Sakito, Nagasaki Prefecture.

World's largest seabird fossil unearthed in Japan

World's largest seabird fossil unearthed in Japan

IWAI, Japan - The photo (bottom) shows what is believed to be the world's largest bone fossil, a humerus, ever discovered of ''plotopteridae,'' a diving seabird that resembled a penguin, researcher Takashige Kawano, 52, of Saga Prefecture, announces at a conference of the Palaeontological Society of Japan in the city of Iwai, Ibaraki Prefecture, on Jan. 28. Above it is the plotopteridae humerus previously discovered. The fossil was discovered in April 1996 under a layer of earth, estimated to be 34 million years old, by Kawano, in the town of Sakito, Nagasaki Prefecture.