Mother Of A Goose! Giant Ocean-going Geese With Bony-teeth Once Roamed Across SE England

[Guest Nicholas]

A 50 million year old skull reveals that huge birds with a 5 metre wingspan once skimmed across the waters that covered what is now London, Essex and Kent. These giant ocean-going relatives of ducks and geese also had a rather bizarre attribute for a bird: their beaks were lined with bony-teeth.

Find the article here!

[Megaselachus13]

Very interesting. They had to live in areas with cliffs. A bird of such dimensions requires heat to sustain the flight.

Cheers.

[Bill]

NEW ?????

See http://www.sheppeyfossils.com/pages/birds.htm for pic's of a specimen found a while back.

[Auspex]

Heads Up, cliff walkers! Pelagornithid fossils are known from Scientist's Cliffs!

Get out there and find me a skull!

[Guest Nicholas]

Now Auspex, do tell me what you would do if you found that skull.

[Auspex]

Now Auspex, do tell me what you would do if you found that skull.

Pretty predictable: I'd come to, only to find that I'd soiled myself.

Peligornis is at the top of my wish-list!