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

Friday, September 26, 2008 - 14:21 in Paleontology & Archaeology

A 50 million year old skull reveals that huge birds with a 5 meter 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.

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