Breeding biology of giant Australian thunderbirds paves way to extinction - University of Cape Town News

Bone microstructure studies on the fossil bones of the extinct ‘thunder bird’ were conducted by UCT and Flinders University vertebrate palaeontologists.

Big bones from the extinct thunderbird or dromornithid indicate that while their size and breeding cycle gradually changed over millennia, they ultimately could not keep pace with the environmental c… [+4163 chars]

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