Fossil birds of prey (IMAGE)

Flinders University

Fossil birds of prey

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A flock of Cryptogyps lacertosus (left) watch on and wait their turn as several individuals of Dynatoaetus pachyosteus (centre, right) feed from the carcass of a dead Diprotodon optatum in the Late Pleistocene Naracoorte landscape in southern Australia. Artwork © John Barrie.

 

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Natural history reconstruction artist John Barrie (courtesy Flinders University)

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