The Sophiornithidae (literally "wisdom birds") are an extinct family of chicken-sized predatory birds that lived from the Paleocene to the Eocene periods of the Cenozoic, and were found primarily in Europe, and are thought to be primitive owls (hence, the name wisdom bird). They were also possibly related to Strigiformes.
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智鸮科（学名：Sophiornithidae，意为“聪慧的鸟”）是一类已灭绝的体型与家鸡相近的鸟类，主要生存于古新世至始新世的欧洲，目前认为它们是一类原始的猫头鹰。 生存于法国的（Berruornis）（晚古新世——晚始新世/早渐新世）以及发现于凯尔西地区的（Palaeotyto）和（Palaeobyas）有时会被归入该科。后两者可能属于草鸮科，而前者可能是一种非常基础的猫头鹰，但不是真正的智鸮科。鸮鹫属（Strigogyps）曾一度被归类为智鸮科，但从那时起它的分类地位发生了数次改变，它似乎属于Ameghinornithidae阿氏鸟科，这个科是叫鹤科的远亲。
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Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).