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2012-03-08 Largest extinct bird?
The largest extinct bird - Dromornis
stirtoni was three metres
or 10 feet tall and weighed half a ton or 500 kilos. It inhabited subtropical
open woodlands in Australia.
Dromornis are part of a family of giant birds
called Dromornithidae that lived from 15 million years ago until less than
30,000 years ago. |