Monty Python’s dead parrot did exist – Telegraph
Last Updated: 2:32AM BST 16/05/2008
The fictional Norwegian Blue parrot – famed as the star of Monty Python’s iconic dead parrot comedy sketch – appears to have once really existed.A fossil expert has established for the first time that parrots lived in Scandinavia about 55 million years ago when the area was covered in tropical forest. Dr David Waterhouse of Norwich, Norfolk, found that a fossilised wing recovered from a mine in Denmark came from a bird which belonged to the parrot family.
He said: “I specialise in bird fossils and am also a Python fan, so I have lived with jokes about dead parrots for years. Article continues advertisement advertisement “Obviously we were dealing with a bird that is bereft of life, but the tricky bit was establishing it was a parrot.”
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