Paleontologists have described a new species of enantiornithine bird with a toothless beak from the Jehol avifauna of China. The discovery pushes back the earliest appearance of edentulism (toothlessness) in enantiornithines by approximately 48 million years. The fossil skeleton of Imparavis attenboroughi and a reconstruction of the bird. Image credit: Ville Sinkkonen / Wang et al., doi: 10.1016/j.cretres.2024.105867. Imparavis attenboroughi lived...
