Re:Giant birds

[Brian Choo <bchoo@cyllene.uwa.edu.au>]

Erm...I think you mean the dromornithids of (possibly) Eocene - Pleistocene
Australia. As far as we know, only one ostrich-sized, probably
non-predatory genus (Genyornis) survived into the late Pleistocene to be
bumped off by Homo sapiens. The possibly predatory giant Bullockornis was
from the Miocene and was extinct long before the first Ozzie humans.

Cheerio
Brian

>europe, but I am not sure of their phylogenetic position. The third group
>was the bullokornids of Plio/Pleistocene Australia, again probably made
>extinct through early human action (eg *Bullokornis planei*).
>
>Patrick Mellor
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