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Prehistoric 'giant goose' skull found in Australia
BBC via AOL· 20 hours agoGenyornis newtoni is a relative of the Australian magpie goose but evolved before them in a separate lineage and is more closely related to the South American screamer < ...
Giant 'Giga-Goose' Once Thundered Across Prehistoric Australia
ScienceAlert via Yahoo News· 21 hours agoWe've known about Genyornis newtoni for quite some time. The species, which died out around 45,000...
Giant 500-pound geese once honked around the Australian outback
Popular Science via Yahoo News· 21 hours agoAustralia has always been a biodiversity hotspot, with some gnarly extinct megafauna in its natural...
Rare skull of an extinct, massive ‘thunder bird’ discovered in Australia | CNN
CNN.com· 16 hours agoFor more than a century, scientists have been unsuccessfully hunting for skull fossils for the...
New species of Arabian desert snake discovered near ancient city
Cosmos· 3 days agoA new species of snake has been discovered in Saudi Arabia which forms a missing puzzle piece in our...
Tectonic shifts caused mass extinction after “Cambrian explosion” half a billion years ago
Cosmos· 15 hours agoGeological studies of sites in Australia and Antarctica reveal the series of tectonic events which...
Bindi Irwin Revealed Daughter Grace’s Favorite Animal & It Was Destiny
SheKnows via Yahoo News· 5 days agoThe late Steve Irwin was known for his love of animals, and his granddaughter Grace Warrior shares...
New fossils show what Australia’s giant prehistoric ‘thunder birds’ looked like – and offer clues...
The Conversation· 1 day agoUntil around 45,000 years ago, Australia was home to a giant flightless bird called Genyornis newtoni, which was two metres tall and weighed up to 230 kilograms. Palaeontologists ...
Elusive 'octopus squid' with world's largest biological lights attacks camera in striking new video
LiveScience· 5 days agoOne of the world's most elusive squid species put on a blinding bioluminescent display as it...
This tiny plant found to have world’s largest known genome
The Independent via Yahoo News· 1 day agoThe plant, named Tmesipteris oblanceolata, is a rare fern species found in New Caledonia, an...
