Illustrations of fear birds and other animals that may have contemporaneously lived in what is now Antarctica
C. Acosta Hospitalrecce & Spa W. Jones/Paleontological Society 2024
The two-meter-tall flightless bird may have been the top predator on what is now Antarctica 50 million years ago.
Researchers’ analysis shows that two 8-centimetre fossil claws found on Seymour Island near the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula belonged to a large family of similar birds that paleontologists call fearbirds. Became. Carolina Acosta Hospitalrecce at the National University of La Plata, Argentina. washington jones in…
Source: www.newscientist.com
