Languages: English, Spanish Paleontologists have made an "amazing" fossil discovery in Australia that has shed new light on a giant and enigmatic prehistoric goose-like bird. A team from Flinders ...

However, there is no species so stern-looking and intimidating as the shoebill. These strange birds have captured the imagination of the internet due to their terrifying expression, as their front ...

The last of the mihirungs went extinct around 45,000 years ago. The only skull, found in 1913, was incomplete and badly damaged, raising questions about the giant bird’s face, habits and ancestry.

While we have a good idea about many prehistoric giant birds and mammals, the early days of the skink are still shrouded in mystery. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the biggest skink known to history was ...

"Using modern birds as comparatives ... These adaptations further support Genyornis being no other than a giant prehistoric goose and are potentially linked to its extinction as fresh water ...

The prehistoric bird in question, Genyornis newtoni ... "We can make inferences about how they moved and how that changed as they grew giant." Get all the latest science stories from across ...

Fossils found in New Zealand highlight an era after the dinosaurs when giant flightless ... bones of prehistoric and modern penguins, the researchers estimate that the “monster bird” weighed ...

It belongs to a now extinct giant flightless bird that weighed 230kg (36 stone) - about five times as much as an emu. The 45,000- to 50,000-year- old fossil is the most complete skull of a ...