Jun 28, 2019 23:00:00

Huge bird fossils estimated to be over 3 meters long and three times as heavy as an ostrich are excavated

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The ostrich is the largest bird of any living bird, and the adult male bird is about 2.5 meters high and weighs about 150 kg. However, in Crimea, a fossil of a bird estimated to be over 3 m in length and 450 kg in weight far exceeding the size of an ostrich was discovered. The large birds found so far were concentrated in the southern hemisphere, but the fossils found this time suggest the possibility that large birds inhabited even in the northern hemisphere.

A giant early Pleistocene bird from eastern Europe: unexpected component of terrestrial faunas at the time of early homo arrival: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology: Vol 0, No 0
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02724634.2019.1605521

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A cave was accidentally discovered during the construction of a highway in Crimea in the summer of 2018, and a research team was dispatched from the Borisiac paleontological research institute to conduct excavation surveys. In addition to fossils such as mammoth, saber tiger , hyena, horse and wolf, the research team excavated too large fossils of birds.

The huge birds is famous ostrich, but the New Zealand North Island giant moa , the Madagascar island of Africa elephant bird , is in Australia Doromonirusu once had inhabited. However, the fossils of these giant birds are mainly found in the southern hemisphere, and they are far from the Crimea peninsula where this stage was set. The research team assumed that the fossils of the large birds found were epiornis, but as a result of analyzing the shape of the bone, they found that the shape was completely different from epiornis. The research team named this giant bird 'Pachystruthio dmanisensis' and announced it.

The fossil discovered this time is the largest fossil among the great birds found in the northern hemisphere. If you estimate the size based on fossils, the estimated length is 3.5 m, and the weight is about 450 kg. If you look at your weight alone, it will be about twice that of Giantmore, about 3 times that of an ostrich, and about twice that of a polar bear.

The following images of A, C, E, and F were discovered this time by Pachystruthio dmanisensis, and B and D are fossils of giant birds that were previously discovered in Georgia. The hugeness of Pachystruthio dmanisensis can be understood well by comparing.

In addition, there are five examples of the discovery of giant bird fossils in the northern hemisphere so far, all of which are concentrated around the Black Sea. 4 in the following figure shows the fossil discovered this time.

It is unknown whether Pachystruthio dmanisensis discovered in the Crimea peninsula and the giant birds discovered in Georgia are the same species, and it is under investigation whether they are species associated with the ostrich. The research team pointed out that Pachystruthio dmanisensis could be run fairly quickly from the fossil shape discovered this time. As Pachystruthio dmanisensis's fossils were discovered at the same time as Pachystruthio dmanisensis's fossils, it is thought that large carnivores were also inhabited when Pachystruthio dmanisensis was still alive in Crimea, so the research team It is hypothesized that 'Pachystruthio dmanisensis has developed its leg strength to escape such a large carnivore'.

By estivillml

Also, the fossils discovered this time are all 'placed' in caves, and the research team is not that homo- elethos , a human genus whose fossils have also been found near the Black Sea, was eating Pachystruthio dmanisensis. I'm guessing.

The largest bird discovered in the world is ' Boronb ', which is a type of epiornis , and its estimated length is 3 m and its estimated weight is 860 kg.