doom”

Despite being possibly the largest birds of all time, the time it took them to reach maturity made them ill-equipped to handle human arrival. The Dromornis stirtoni, possibly the largest bird to have ever existed, went extinct 7 million years ago, but its bones have revealed the fatal flaw that doomed its descendants: they took too long to mate. Australia used to be home … [Read more...] about We may have discovered the cause of Australia’s enormous extinct “Demon Ducks of Doom”