Giant bird with a 17 foot wingspan fossil found
Giant Bird, Jagged Grin
Illustration courtesy Carlos Anzures
Boasting a 17-foot (5.2-meter) wingspan and sharp, spiny “pseudoteeth,” this ancient seabird is one of the largest flying birds known.
Soaring above the oceans and mountains of what’s now Chile between five and ten million years ago, the newly discovered species, named Pelagornis chilensis, was part of a prehistoric group known as the bony-toothed birds. The […]