<i>Genyornis newtoni</i> (IMAGE)

University of Colorado at Boulder

<i>Genyornis newtoni</i>

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An illustration of a giant flightless bird known as Genyornis newtoni, surprised on her nest by a 1 ton, predatory lizard named Megalania prisca in Australia roughly 50,000 thousand years ago.

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Illustration by Peter Trusler, Monash University

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