Remains of extinct giant parrot found in New Zealand

While most parrots today are small enough to perch on your shoulder, you probably wouldn't want to do that with a newly discovered ancient ancestor of the bird. Palaeontologists in New Zealand have now uncovered the remains of Heracles inexpectatus, an extinct giant parrot that would have stood hip-high to most people and packed a beak powerful enough to crack open pretty much whatever it wanted to.

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Category: Science

Tags:

• Animals
• Birds
• Bones
• Flinders University
• Fossils
• New Zealand
• Paleontology

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