Tag: pelagornithids
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Phys.org: Antarctica yields oldest fossils of giant birds with 6.4-meter wingspans
Phys.org has an interesting story about some truly giant birds. The bird fossils, discovered in the 1980s, show that an extinct group of birds, the pelagornithids, had some large members not long after the mass extinction that killed off the dinosaurs, 65 million years ago. One specimen, which lived about 50 million years ago, had…
