Antarctica yields oldest fossils of giant birds with 21-foot wingspans

ScienceDaily
Oct 27, 2020, 1:37 pm223 pts
Some of the largest birds in history, called pelagornithids, arose a few million years after the mass extinction that killed off the dinosaurs and patrolled the oceans with giant wingspans for some 60 million years. A team of paleontologists has found two fossils -- each from individual pelagornithids with…

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