New Study Explains The Demise Of The Biggest Birds On The Planet - Forbes

Big bones from the extinct mihirung, or thunder bird, have yielded new insights into their slow breeding patterns and how this could have contributed to their extinction.

Study co-author associate professor Trevor Worthy comparing a fossil shinbone of the giant mihirung ... [+] bird with a modern-day emu bone. Flinders University Dromornithidae, known as mihirungs (… [+3353 chars]

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