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Published online 14 October 2003 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news031013-1

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Fossil albatrosses reveal sea-level rise

Melting ice sheet swamped Bermudan colony.

Researchers have unearthed the first fossilized breeding colony of albatrosses. The bones were found in Bermuda - no albatrosses live there today, or indeed anywhere else in the North Atlantic.

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