Australian megafauna - Wikipedia
A 2021 study found that the rate of extinction of Australia's megafauna is rather unusual, with some more generalistic species having gone extinct earlier while highly specialised ones having become extinct later or even still surviving today.
Dromornithidae - Wikipedia
Dromornithidae, known as mihirungs (after Tjapwuring Mihirung paringmal, "giant bird") and informally as thunder birds or demon ducks, were a clade of large, flightless Australian birds of the Oligocene through Pleistocene epochs. All are now extinct.
Category:Extinct birds of Australia - Wikipedia
Pages in category "Extinct birds of Australia" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.
New fossils show what Australia’s giant prehistoric ‘thunder birds ...
Jun 3, 2024 · Until around 45,000 years ago, Australia was home to a giant flightless bird called Genyornis newtoni, which was two metres tall and weighed up to 230 kilograms. Palaeontologists first...
Genyornis newtoni - The Australian Museum
Genyornis newtoni was the last of the large, flightless mihirungs ('thunder birds') endemic to Australia. It was a heavily built bird over 2 metres tall, with tiny wings and massive hind legs.
Extinct ‘thunder bird’ from Australia was a giant goose ... - CNN
Jun 3, 2024 · About 50,000 years ago, these titans, also known as mihirungs, from an Aboriginal term for “giant bird,” tramped through the forests and grasslands of Australia on muscular legs. They stood...
Paleontologists Uncover Rare Skull of 500-Pound 'Thunder Bird' in Australia
Jun 4, 2024 · Until about 45,000 years ago, a giant, flightless bird called Genyornis newtoni roamed Australia. Known as “Newton’s thunder bird,” the species stood more than six feet tall and weighed as...
500-Pound Prehistoric Bird Was a ‘Giga-Goose,’ Fossils Reveal
Jun 3, 2024 · In 1893 camel-riding palaeontologists dug up a nearly complete skeleton of a massive bird that, tens of thousands of years prior, had gotten itself mired in the mud of Lake Callabonna in South...
Skull of prehistoric 'giant goose' discovered in Australia - BBC
Jun 3, 2024 · The skull of a prehistoric "giant goose" has been discovered in Australia. It belongs to a now extinct giant flightless bird that weighed 230kg (36 stone) - about five times as much as an emu.
Giant Extinct Australian Birds Had Well-Developed Stereoscopic Vision ...
Dromornithids are an extinct group of large flightless birds that lived in Australia from the Eocene to the Late Pleistocene epoch. Four genera and eight species are currently recognized, with diversity highest in the Miocene epoch.