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Archive for 28 October 2006

Largest Bird in the World Discovered

Mon@rch News:

While listening to NPR radio yesterday, I learned that an Argentina teenager discovered a near complete skull and leg bone of the largest bird in the world. This skull places this newly found species in the phorusrhacid family which scientists are calling the “terror bird”.

It was published in the Journal “Nature” (volume 443, page 929) that this flightless bird was about 3 meters tall with its head about the size of horse.  This species had the speed of a grayhound dog. The Terror Bird survived about 60 millions years after the death of the dinosaurs.  It was one of the largest predators dominating the grasslands of South of America and survied up to about 2 millions years ago. For more info be sure to check out the following links:

Giant Terror Bird was light on its feet – New Scientist

NPR : Huge ‘Terror Bird’ Fossil Discovered in Patagonia


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MonarchBfly dot com

How awesome is this!  Word Press has recently given everyone the option to purchase and connect a domain to your wordpress.com blog site.  The Mon@rch Nature Blog will now be located with the http://MonarchBfly.com domain.  Do note that all of my old links with https://bfly.wordpress.com will still work and Word Press will automatically direct you to the new address.

 

I hope everyone likes this domain and I tried to make it somewhat easy to remember!   We have heavy rain tonight with strong wind!