Prehistoric bird standing 11.5 ft tall and weighing half a ton found in Crimean cave

Generally speaking, the animals alive today are mere shadows of their former selves – everything from worms to otters to penguins to sharks were bigger and meaner in the distant past. And birds were no exception, as newly-found fossils indicate. In a Crimean cave, palaeontologists have uncovered the bones of some of the most gigantic birds to have ever walked the Earth that would have lived alongside early European humans.

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Category: Science

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• Animals
• Birds
• Bones
• Fossils
• Paleontology

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