Palaeontology 🦖@mander.xyzEnglish · 5 months ago

Face of ancient Australian ‘giga-goose’ revealed after fossil skull found

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Face of ancient Australian ‘giga-goose’ revealed after fossil skull found

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Palaeontology 🦖@mander.xyzEnglish · 5 months ago

After more than a century of searching, the head of one of the largest ever birds has been found.

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But was it a total asshole to all the other dinosaurs?

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Paleontology, also spelled palaeontology[a] or palæontology, is the scientific study of life that existed prior to, and sometimes including, the start of the Holocene epoch (roughly 11,700 years before present). It includes the study of fossils to classify organisms and study their interactions with each other and their environments (their /c/paleoecology. Read more…

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