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The neck is relatively shorter and thicker than other long-legged wading birds such as herons and cranes. The wings are broad, with a wing chord length of 58.8 to 78 cm (23.1 to 30.7 in), and well-adapted to soaring. [19] The skull. The plumage of adult birds is blue-grey with darker slaty-grey flight feathers. The breast presents some ...
The structure of the fossils also suggest that these birds may have been swifter than originally thought. [25] A skull from a smaller subspecies of this bird was also found recently. With this fossil, it was found that the internal structure of the beak is hollow and reinforced with thin-walled trabeculae.
In addition to fish and smaller aquatic animals, mature adults prey on larger vertebrates, including proboscis monkeys, long-tailed macaques, deer, water birds, and reptiles. [26] There is an eyewitness account of a false gharial attacking a cow in East Kalimantan .
Medium to large flightless birds New Zealand: Mongolian death worm [41] Allghoi (or orghoi) khorkhoi Worm-like animal Gobi Desert (Asia) Nandi bear [42] Chemosit, Kerit, Koddoelo, Ngoelo, Ngoloko, Duba Large carnivore Eastern Africa Queensland Tiger [43] Yarri Large feline Queensland: Thylacine (surviving original populations) [44] [45] [c ...
Jingwei – a bird who is determined to fill up the sea; Lamassu (Mesopotamian) – goddess with a human head, the body of a bull or a lion, and bird wings; Luan – a bird which carries a shield and tramples on snakes while wearing one on its breast; Minokawa – Giant, Dragon-like bird in Philippines (Philippines)
The bird kicked the younger boy, who fell and ran away as his older brother struck the bird. The older McClean then tripped and fell to the ground. While he was on the ground, the cassowary kicked him in the neck, opening a 1.25-centimetre (0.49 in) wound that severed his jugular vein .
They studied the rare bird for a period of 21 months as it returned to feed on the fresh fruit and sugar water left out every day by the owners of the Colombian farm.
The name Pseudosuchia was originally given to a group of superficially crocodile-like prehistoric reptiles from the Triassic period, but fell out of use in the late 20th century, especially after the name Crurotarsi was established in 1990 to label the clade (evolutionary grouping) of archosaurs encompassing most reptiles previously identified as pseudosuchians.