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Who's your favorite superhero? Captain Marvel? Superman? Well in a minute you might just change your answer to the

Wonder Chicken. Yes, The Wonder Chicken. Strange visitor from this planet a 67 million year old fossil that's helping researchers piece together the bird family tree.

An amateur fossil hunter dug up this specimen 20 years ago in Belgium,

but it wasn't much to look at, just some damaged broken rocks with a few limb bones poking out.

That is, until researchers recently decided to peer inside.

We took these not very promising looking rocks and CT scan them.

And when we did that, we were amazed to discover that inside the rock was a beautiful, nearly complete, three-dimensional preserved bird skull.

Paleobiology Daniel Field of the University of Cambridge in the UK.

The result was so striking that coming up with a nickname for this newly discovered species was easy.

The combination of the shock and the chy nature of the fossil resulted in the name

Wonder Chicken. And the specimen isn't just special because of the incredibly preserved skull. The

Wonder Chicken is actually a record breaker.

So this is actually the oldest fossil ever found that's clearly a representative of the group of modern birds.

The Wanda Chicken walked the earth less than a of the group of modern birds.

The Wanda Chicken walked the earth less than a million years before the asteroid impact that wiped out dinosaurs.

In fact, this approximately 400 gram, or about 7-8ths of a pound, bird, would have been a contemporary

of many of the best known dinosaur species, like Tyrannosaurus rex or triceratops.

Even though great amounts of evolutionary history can now be deduced by studying the genomes of living species,

fossils like this one can still play a valuable role.

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