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article  // 25 Aug 2022

Breeding biology of giant Australian thunderbirds paves way to extinction

Big bones from the extinct ‘thunderbird’ or dromornithid indicate that while their size and breeding cycle gradually changed over millennia, they ultimately could not keep pace with the environmental changes around them.
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