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Ancient Europeans lived alongside a half-ton bird nearly 12 feet tall

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Sanguine:

--- Quote ---Inside a Crimean cave was a gigantic ancient mystery just waiting to be uncovered: a bird so large that it weighed nearly as much as an adult polar bear.

Giant birds once roamed Madagascar, New Zealand and Australia. The latest fossil find, an intriguing fossilized femur, was recently found in Taurida Cave on the northern coast of the Black Sea.

It was discovered along with other fossils, including bison bones, that helped researchers date the now-extinct giant bird to between 1.5 million and 2 million years ago. ...



https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/26/world/giant-bird-crimean-cave-scn-trnd/index.html
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truth_seeker:
Huge range, from Black Sea, to Madagascar, to New Zealand.

TomSea:
Amazing. Besides the Emu, Ostrich, whatever those big birds in Australia are (those may be Emus or may be something else), I saw that there seems to be another big bird that roams the planet still, a bird that does not seem too threatening.

Sanguine:

--- Quote from: TomSea on June 27, 2019, 11:07:46 pm ---Amazing. Besides the Emu, Ostrich, whatever those big birds in Australia are (those may be Emus or may be something else), I saw that there seems to be another big bird that roams the planet still, a bird that does not seem too threatening.

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Maybe cassowary or secretary bird? 

TomSea:
Cassowary, that's it, those things can kill... kill pretty easily. Thank you, great answer. @Sanguine

The other day, as I said, I saw a picture of another big bird, neither of the two you mentioned. Maybe I can find something on it this weekend.

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