The Earliest Bird To Sip a Flower

sciencehabit (1205606) writes "Researchers have unearthed the earliest evidence of a bird sipping nectar from a flower. The stomach contents of the 47-million-year-old fossil flyer — a long-extinct species of perching bird — include hundreds of grains of pollen. The ancient pollen grains are large and apparently clumped together readily, a clue that the plant that bore the flowers was pollinated by creatures and not by the wind."

Re:It seems unlikely

[Anonymous Coward]

The title is inaccurate, but the summary is accurate, as it states "the earliest evidence of" not "the first bird."

Some missing information

[Sique]

What's missing is where the scientist found the remainings of the bird, and who those scientists were.

The site is the wellknown Messel pit [wikipedia.org], an UNESCO World Nature Heritage site. The scientists were a team from the nearby Senckenberg Museum [senckenberg.de].