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New study reveals giant prehistoric bird’s pea brain – Queensland Country Life
The largest flightless bird ever to live weighed in up to 600kg and had a whopping head about half a metre long – but its brain was squeezed for space.
A new study has found that the largest flightless bird to ever roam the planet had a very tiny brain.
Dromornis stirtoni was the largest of the mihirungs – an Aboriginal word for ‘giant bird’ – weighing up to 600kg and standing three meters tall.
The enormous flightless bird had a head about half a metre long leading Australian palaeontologists to look inside its brain space to see how it worked.
The study, published in the journal Diversity, examined the brains of the extinct giant mihirungs or…
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