Tag Archive for 'Fur Formation'

Reconstruction of the living bar-tailed trogon (Apaloderma vittatum) in the Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum.

Trogons Once Had Ordinary Feet, 55-Million-Year-Old Fossil Shows

Sep 25, 2026 by Enrico de Lazaro

Trogons — a group of colorful, medium-sized birds that live in tropical and subtropical forests around the world — are recognizable by an odd...

Apachyus madseni. Image credit: Simonsen et al., doi: 10.11646/palaeoentomology.7.5.7.

55-Million-Year-Old Fossil Earwig Found in Denmark

Dec 18, 2024 by Enrico de Lazaro

Apachyus madseni is the first fossil representative of the enigmatic earwig family Apachyidae. Apachyus madseni. Image credit: Simonsen et al., doi: 10.11646/palaeoentomology.7.5.7. The...