<em>Gastornis</em> (IMAGE)

University of Colorado at Boulder

<em>Gastornis</em>

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A new study involving CU-Boulder and the Chinese Academy of Sciences has confirmed that a flightless bird weighing several hundred pounds roamed Ellesmere Island in the high Arctic about 50 million years ago.

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Illustration by Marlin Peterson

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