500-Pound Prehistoric Bird Was a ‘Giga-Goose,’ Fossils Reveal
Jun 3, 2024 · And now researchers have uncovered and reconstructed the skull of a 6.5-foot-tall, 500-pound flightless bird that they’ve nicknamed the “giga-goose,” resolving more than a century of ...
Face of ancient Australian 'giga-goose' revealed after fossil ...
Jun 3, 2024 · After more than a century of searching, the head of one of the largest ever birds has been found. Nicknamed the ‘giga-goose’, the newly uncovered skull provides a detailed insight into how Genyornis newtoni lived.
Extinct Giant 'Giga-Goose' Bird's Look Finally Revealed by ...
Jun 3, 2024 · A team from Flinders University in Australia uncovered a nearly complete fossil skull of the "giga-goose," Genyornis newtoni —a flightless species that went extinct around 45,000 years ago—a...
Think regular geese are scary? Meet Australia's 230kg 'giga-goose'
Jun 3, 2024 · Freshly discovered skulls of a giant prehistoric bird that lived in Australia until about 45,000 years ago reveal it had a "goose-like beak" and other aquatic adaptations.
Giant 'Giga-Goose' Once Thundered Across Prehistoric Australia
Giant 'Giga-Goose' Once Thundered Across Prehistoric Australia. An artist's reconstruction of the head of Genyornis newtoni, based on a new skull. (Jacob C. Blokland/Flinders University) On the prehistoric plains of Australia shone a golden age for giant flightless birds.
Meet the ‘Giga-Goose,’ a 500-Pound Ice Age Bird - Gizmodo
Jun 3, 2024 · An Ice Age bird that weighed twice as much as an ostrich was adapted for the water, say a team of researchers who recently studied fossils from creature, which went extinct about 45,000 years...
Giant skull of Australian megafauna bird reveals a prehistoric 'giga-goose'
Jun 4, 2024 · Aspects of the skull also showed undeniable and complex similarities to that of early diverging waterfowl lineages, the South American Screamers and, a bit closer to home, the Australian Magpie...
Giant 500-pound geese once honked around the Australian outback
Jun 3, 2024 · These stocky birds went extinct about 45,000 years ago–living alongside humans for a bit. Now, after over a century of digging, researchers in Australia have uncovered a complete skull of this ...
Science Adviser: Australian ‘giga-goose’ finally gets a face - AAAS
Jun 4, 2024 · More than a hundred years ago, paleontologists digging in a remote lakebed in South Australia unearthed the 50,000-year-old bones of a giant, flightless bird—a species previously unknown to science. But getting the creature's skull back to the South Australian Museum in Adelaide for study was an odyssey .
'Giga-goose' shows its face – News
Jun 4, 2024 · After 128 years of exploration, fossil excavation and investigation, Flinders University researchers have finally uncovered the skull of Australia’s own giant and charismatic megafauna bird – Genyornis newtoni.