[Ads-l] demon ducks of doom

[Jonathan Lighter]

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!

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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