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Wisdom (officially designated #Z333) is a wild female Laysan albatross, the oldest confirmed wild bird in the world and the oldest banded bird in the world. [1] First tagged in 1956 at Midway by the United States Geological Survey (USGS), she was still incubating eggs as late as 2024 and has received international media coverage in her lifetime.
The evolution of birds began in the Jurassic Period, with the earliest birds derived from a clade of theropod dinosaurs named Paraves. [1] Birds are categorized as a biological class, Aves. For more than a century, the small theropod dinosaur Archaeopteryx lithographica from the Late Jurassic period was considered to have been the earliest bird.
Despite having a six-foot wingspan, its actually on the smaller side for an albatross, and is famous for being the species that boasts the world’s oldest known wild bird, Wisdom, who has been ...
The world’s oldest known wild bird is back in her familiar stomping grounds — this time, with a new beau. Wisdom, a Laysan albatross who is at least 74, returned to her annual nesting site at ...
The world's oldest known wild bird has laid an egg at the approximate age of 74, US biologists say. Wisdom, a Laysan albatross, was filmed by the US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) at the Midway ...
The earliest birds with a modern pygostyle: a reduction and fusion of the tail vertebrae; possibly a paraphyletic group. Two types of pygostyle are known, a rod-shaped one found in Confuciusornithidae, Enantiornithes and some non-avian theropods such as Nomingia, and a plowshare-shaped one
The species' average lifespan in around 68 years, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: World's oldest known bird lays ...
The discovery was notable, due to the large size of the specimens, and because, at the time, Gastornis represented one of the oldest known birds. [2] Additional bones of the first known species, G. parisiensis , were found in the mid- 1860s .