The 120-million-year-old fossil skeleton with feathers of the juvenile early bird Jeholornis from China, showing some microscopic fossil phytolith remains of its last meal of leaves from magnoliid trees (IMAGE)

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The 120-million-year-old fossil skeleton with feathers of the juvenile early bird Jeholornis from China, showing some microscopic fossil phytolith remains of its last meal of leaves from magnoliid trees

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The 120-million-year-old fossil skeleton with feathers of the juvenile early bird Jeholornis from China, showing some microscopic fossil phytolith remains of its last meal of leaves from magnoliid trees that were extracted from the remains of the bird’s stomach, in comparison with phytoliths from living magnoliid trees

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