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Ancient eggshells unlock discovery of extinct elephant bird lineage (colorado.edu)
52 points by gmays on March 5, 2023 | hide | past | favorite | 4 comments


Wikipedia page for elephant bird: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephant_bird


I feel a certain sadness whenever I hear of a fantastic species that lived concurrent with modern humans (within the last 4000 year or so), but has gone extinct before I could see it.


On the other hand, I'm imagining roasting that chicken-sized egg in the oven...


Horton Hatches the Egg comes to mind.




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