New Species of Ground-Dwelling Bird, the Largest of Its Kind, Identified in Same Cave as Homo Floresiensis
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New species of ground-dwelling bird, the largest of its kind, identified in same cave as Homo floresiensis
In 2009, researchers working in the Liang Bua cave on Flores Island came across a leg bone. The 190,000–120,000-year-old fossil was identified as a bird bone and set aside. Like many bird bones before it, it was overlooked and left to collect dust.
The Liang Bua cave on the Indonesian island of Flores is known above all for the fossils of the "Hobbitmenschen" Homo floresiensis. Now a leg bone recovered there already in 2009 provides the proof of a previously unknown large-footed chicken species. Megapodius rokusi weighed an estimated 3.9 kilograms and was thus the largest hitherto known representative of his genus. Bergen (Norway). [...] The post Huge, 190,000 years old large-footed chicke…
In 2009, researchers found a leg bone in Liang Bua Cave on Flores Island. That fossil, aged between 190,000 and 120.
Researchers have identified a giant prehistoric bird related to chickens from a fossil found in a cave in Indonesia. The bird, which weighed about 3.9 kg and is known as Megapodius roccuzzi, is larger than any other megapod that has ever existed.
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