tarsometatarsus bone (IMAGE)

University of Texas at Austin

tarsometatarsus bone

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The tarsometatarsus, or ankle bone, of a thick-billed parrot. The bone was collected at an archeological dig in New Mexico during the 1950s. UT doctoral student John Moretti identified the bone as belonging to a parrot.

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John Moretti/UT Jackson School of Geosciences.

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