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Birds descend from theropod dinosaurs. After the extinction 66 million years ago, some lost flight and grew into giants. In South America, terror birds were large running hunters. In the Eocene of Antarctica, penguins reached the height of a man.
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Bryan Patterson & Jorge Lucas Kraglievich
About 1.4 m tall and 40 kg in weight, this flightless terror bird had a 37 cm skull. Large expansions of the lacrimal bone above its eyes shielded them from the sun as in modern hawks. They also gave it keen eyesight: it hunted by sight in open, sunlit areas.
Photo: ДиБгд (CC BY 4.0)
Wiman
It stood half a metre longer than today's emperor penguin, which is only 1.2 m long. This giant reached 1.8 m from the tip of the beak to the tip of the tail and weighed 90 kg.
Photo: Caz41985 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Peter D. M. Weesie
This owl stood at least 60 cm tall and dwarfed the 22 cm long little owl. It probably descended from it.
Photo: Apokryltaros at English Wikipedia (CC BY 2.5)
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