Fossil skeleton of the daytime active owl Miosurnia diurna from China with an expanded view of the skull (IMAGE)

Chinese Academy of Sciences Headquarters

Fossil skeleton of the daytime active owl Miosurnia diurna from China with an expanded view of the skull

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Fossil skeleton of the daytime active owl Miosurnia diurna from China (below) with an expanded view of the skull (top left). The eye bones or scleral ossicles are false colored blue and set in comparison with an intact ring in the skull of a pygmy owl Glaucidium (top right).

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