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Clean Energy & Climate Transition 13 Nov 2026, 05:00 PM IST

47-Million-Year-Old Owl Fossil Recasts the Origins of Nocturnal Hunting

A remarkably preserved 47-million-year-old owl fossil from Germany’s Messel Pit is challenging a long-held assumption that owls first evolved as night hunters. The specimen, which appears to have died with its last meal still in its stomach, suggests some early owls may have hunted in daylight before the group fully adapted to nocturnal life.

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