Polly wants many crackers: fossils reveal first known giant parrot

Extinct bird lived in what is now New Zealand and stood roughly 1 metre tall.

A parrot taller than a Saint Bernard dog trod the Earth more than 15 million years ago.

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Nature 572, 287 (2019)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-019-02377-y

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