Ostrich relative once lived in N America

Ostrich relative once lived in N America

A relative of the modern ostrich once strutted across North America.

Scientists have identified the bones of a 50 million-year-old fossil -- recovered a decade ago from an ancient lake bed in Wyoming -- as belonging to a relative of the famed flightless African bird species.

"This is among one of the earliest well-represented bird species after the age of large dinosaurs," researcher Sterling Nesbitt, an assistant professor of geoscience at Virginia Tech, said in a news release. Read More The Financial Express