[Ads-l] demon ducks of doom

[Laurence Horn]

> On Oct 13, 2018, at 10:01 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> 
> 2000 Stephanie Pain, in _New Scientist_
> https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg16622404-800-the-demon-duck-of-doom/
> :  Clearly this is no ordinary duck. It is almost 3 metres tall, with legs
> like tree trunks, a body like a tank and a head the size of a horse’s-with
> a terrible beak. Meet the demon duck of doom.
> 
> 2018 _Smithsonian_ (Sept.) 86: FACT. _Dromornis planei_, an extinct species
> of 600-pound flightless birds nicknamed the "Demon Ducks of Doom," lived as
> recently as 50,000 years ago in what is now Australia.
> 
> Formerly "Bullockornis planei," it is also called the "Thunderduck."
> 
> But get this! It didn't look like a duck at all!

But if it swam like a duck and quacked like a duck...
> 
> More so-called "experts"!
> http://dinopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Bullockornis?file=Tumblr_mcu90gcffN1rxmivho1_500.jpg
> <http://dinopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Bullockornis?file=Tumblr_mcu90gcffN1rxmivho1_500.jpg>
> 
> JL
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