A
#mouth built for efficiency may have helped the earliest
#bird fly
About 150M years ago, in a coastal lagoon in what is now Germany, the oldest known bird gobbled up food with a beak built for efficient eating.
Called
#Archaeopteryx, the animal had a toothed beak, hooked claws for grasping or climbing and feathered wings that it used for gliding and short bursts of flight. It is the earliest
#dinosaur that scientists also classify as a bird.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/mouth-earliest-bird-fly-archaeopteryxhttps://archive.ph/Rw6hK