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Elephant birds: Who killed the largest birds that ever lived?

by tegeek on 9/15/18, 3:33 PM with 58 comments

• by qwerty456127 on 9/15/18, 8:54 PM

  As far as I can see from the article the "birds" were of the ostrich kind, not the flying kind we imagine when hearing the word "bird". As far as I know the modern science also says that many dinosaurs that didn't fly also had feathers. So why aren't the other dinosaurs considered "elephant birds" while this creature is?

• by lelf on 9/15/18, 4:58 PM

  More info http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/09/new-find-clears-madag...

  Paper http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/advances/4/9/eaat6925...

• by nonbel on 9/15/18, 4:46 PM

  Were these birds bigger than dinosaurs?

  https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/tetrapod-zoology/the-bi...

• by ddingus on 9/15/18, 4:03 PM

  Any DNA?

  Might these be recent enough to bring back?

• by fauigerzigerk on 9/15/18, 5:09 PM

  The illustration doesn't seem plausible. Their wings would have to look far more bulky to be wide enough to lift their weight.