Museum tour of giant bird from @naturalhistorymuseum

Name: Museum tour of giant bird from @naturalhistorymuseum
Uploaded: 2024-10-18T20:13:05.000Z
Duration: 39 s
Channel: naturalhistorymuseum
Description: The narrator guides the viewer through a museum exhibit of the Gastornis gigantea skeleton, first describing its immense size and powerful beak, then revealing surprising scientific findings that it was a vegetarian related to ducks and geese, and finally explaining its place in avian evolution.

The narrator guides the viewer through a museum exhibit of the Gastornis gigantea skeleton, first describing its immense size and powerful beak, then revealing surprising scientific findings that it was a vegetarian related to ducks and geese, and finally explaining its place in avian evolution.

Creator: @naturalhistorymuseum on TikTok

Transcript

Imagine a hefty bird that stood taller than a full grown human with a huge, crushing beak. Enter Distornis gigantea. It lived some fifty five million years ago during the Eocene. This giant, flightless bird stood more than six feet tall and weigh over three hundred and thirty pounds. Once assumed to be a carnivore that hunted small animals, scientists now think this extinct avian was actually a vegetarian related to ducks and geese. All birds alive today, even ostriches, emus, and other hefty ru

Topics: Pets & Animals, History, Nature & Wildlife, Education

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