Named Plumadraco bankoorum, the newly-described species of enantiornithine bird lived in what is now northeastern China during the Cretaceous period, roughly 121 million years ago.
According to the team, "Phoebe" is five orders of magnitude more likely to be part of our own galaxy and may have formed in the first few seconds of our universe.
Wild pigs are generally considered among the world's most problematic invasive mammals. But a major new study from Aarhus Universitet shows that the introduced animals may actually have beneficial effects in North American forests.