Human’s appetite for eggs helped drive this giant Australian bird to extinction - ZME Science

People arriving in what is now Australia likely ate the bird to extinction.

Over 50,000 years ago, the territory of what is now Australia was populated, among others, by very big birds. One of them, Genyornis newtoni, weighed about 250 kilograms. But its size didn’t do it mu… [+3397 chars]

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