Laura is a science news writer, covering a wide variety of subjects, but she is particularly fascinated by all things aquatic, paleontology, nanotechnology, and exploring how science influences daily life. Laura is a proud former resident of the New Jersey shore, a competitive swimmer, and a fierce defender of the Oxford comma.
ArticleBody:Australia has always been a biodiversity hotspot, with some gnarly extinct megafauna in its natural history. Enormous, flightless ‘thunder birds’ or mihirungs once roamed the rugged Australian outback. The last remaining mihirung species was the roughly 6.5 feet tall Genyornis newtoni. These stocky birds went extinct about 45,000 years ago–living alongside humans for a bit.
Illustration by Phoebe McInerney. Used with permission. Available for media and current affairs use; all other rights reserved. Analyzing the skull also gave the team a better idea of how this giant prehistoric goose’s head would have functioned. “The form of a bone, and structures on it, are partly related to the soft tissues that interact with them, such as muscles and ligaments, and their attachment sites or passages,” study co-author and PhD student Jacob Blokland said in a statement.
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