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2012-02-07 What is the largest extinct bird in the world?
The Dromornis
stirtoni of Australia.
Dromornis stirtoni was three metres or 10 feet tall and
weighed half a ton or 500 kilograms. 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. |