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Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What is the name of the bird whose fossil have been discovered recently and is world’s oldest known modern bird skull?
A
Wonderchicken
B
Wonderduck
C
Duckchicken
D
Chickenduck
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -"Archaeopteryx". Encyclopedia Britannica, 15 Oct. 2020, https://www.britannica.com/animal/Archaeopteryx.

Detailed explanation-2: -Discovered near the Dutch town of Maastricht, in famous fossil beds that formed between 66.8 million and 66.7 million years ago, the turducken lived just before the mass extinction that killed off the dinosaurs.

Detailed explanation-3: -The oldest fossil of a modern bird, dating from the age of dinosaurs, has been discovered, a new study reports. The tiny fossil, nicknamed the “wonderchicken, ” includes a nearly complete skull hidden inside nondescript pieces of rock, and dates to more than 66 million years ago.

Detailed explanation-4: -Behold the Wonderchicken, the earliest modern bird ever found. Asteriornis maastrichtensis lived 66.7 million years ago, less than a million years before the asteroid impact that doomed all nonavian dinosaurs.

Detailed explanation-5: -Archaeopteryx, widely regarded as being the world’s oldest known bird, has just been knocked off its scientific perch, since new research concludes this feathered animal was, in fact, a dinosaur.

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