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This Giant Crane Classified Extinct Species in 1870 Would Not Be What Scientists Believed
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A giant bird of the Ice Age, considered an extinct species for more than 150 years, may have been just a larger version of the common grou-grus. Genetic analysis of 18 ancient bones revealed that these animals belonged to the same species that still inhabits Europe, although their size has decreased over the years.
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A species extinct for 150 years would never have existed. The case begins with a simple paw bone, exhumed in a cave in the south of France and judged too massive to belong to a known crane. From this observation was born a giant phantom crane, which ancient DNA has now dissolved. To remember In [...]
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