São Miguel scops owl was wiped out by man's arrival in the Azores, researchers find
Friday, June 28, 2013 - 08:00
in Paleontology & Archaeology
(Phys.org) —On 28 August 2011 researchers Juan Carlos Rando, from the University of La Laguna (Tenerife), and Josep Antoni Alcover from the Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies in Mallorca unearthed some small fossil bones buried not far below the ground of the Água de Pau cave (São Miguel Island, Azores, Portugal).