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Massive New "Terror Bird" Discovered, Endangered Woodpecker Makes a Comeback, and TDIH - White Hurricane of the Great Lakes

Cool Stuff Daily

Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

News, Tech News, Science, Society & Culture

4.6732 Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2024

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

The discovery of a fossilized 'Terror Bird' leg sheds light on the ancient South American ecosystem and a woodpecker’s comeback changes its status from endangered to threatened. Plus, on The Day in History, the White Hurricane of the Great Lakes. Fossil of huge terror bird offers new information about wildlife in South America 12 million years ago | ScienceDaily Red-cockaded woodpeckers' recovery in southeast leads to status change from endangered to threatened | AP News 'White Hurricane': Remembering the Great Lakes Storm of 1913 | Weather.com Remembering the November 1913 "White Hurricane" (weather.gov) The 4 factors that have led to a 'golden age' of discovery for Great Lakes shipwrecks | CBC News Contact the show - [email protected] Sponsored By Acorns - Head to at acorns.com/cool or download the Acorns app to start saving and investing for your future today! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Welcome to Cool Stuff Ride Home.

0:38.8

I'm Red Your Zoo alongside Marcus Paff.

0:41.1

On today's episode, the discovery of a fossilized terror bird leg sheds light on the ancient South African ecosystem.

0:49.5

And a woodpecker's comeback changes its status from endangered to threatened.

0:55.5

Plus, on this day in history,

1:01.5

the white hurricane of the Great Lakes. That's coming up on cool stuff. Well, researchers including a Johns Hopkins University evolutionary biologist report they've analyzed a fossil of an extinct

1:08.0

giant meat-eating bird, which they say could be the largest known

1:12.6

member of its kind, providing new information about animal life in northern South America

1:17.9

millions of years ago. All this has summarized by Science Daily. The evidence lies in the legbone

1:24.2

of the terror bird described in a new paper published November 4th in the journal

1:28.7

paleontology. The study was led by Frederico J. DeGrange, a terror bird specialist, and

1:34.8

included Sjoban Cook, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Functional Anatomy and Evolution at the Johns

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