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This Massive Scientific Discovery Sat Hidden in a Museum Drawer for Decades

Science Quickly

Scientific American

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4.2639 Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2023

⏱️ 11 minutes

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The fossil was a prehistoric bird called Pelagornis sandersi, and its wings stretched out twice as wide as those of the great albatross.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:05.8

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0:11.0

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0:20.1

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0:22.7

.jp. That's Y-A-K-U-L-T.C-O.J-P. When it comes to a guide for your, and I'm Flor Lichten.

0:47.5

This week, I want to take you bird watching. But I'm not talking about an ordinary passerine peep show.

0:54.7

We are skipping the songbirds.

0:57.1

It's a no-fly zone for hawks and raptors.

1:00.9

Waterfowl?

1:02.4

Throw in the towel.

1:07.7

The birds we're going to meet.

1:09.8

They're not like anything you've ever peeped.

1:13.6

They used the beak as an axe to kill prey.

1:18.6

Oh my god.

1:19.6

So just imagine the largest thing you've ever seen alive flying.

1:25.6

They are colossal, around 1,900 pounds.

1:31.6

The eggs would have been about 150 times the size of a chicken egg.

1:37.8

Two feet for feathers, which is, that's a big feather.

1:41.1

Most people, you know, think ostrich, and they think that's big, but actually

1:45.1

they were real giants around it one time. We are talking about birds that weighed as much as a

1:53.0

sports car, birds who were the top predators of their day, prowling the jungle and devouring

1:58.6

animals the size of small horses. Birds so gargantuan that you

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