Bullockornis
Name: Bullockornis ("ox bird") or The Demon Duck of Doom
Habitat: Woodlands of Australia
Historical Time: Middle Miocene (15 million years ago)
Size and Weight: About 8 feet tall and 500 pounds
Diet: Meat
Fact: Bullockornis seems to have been more closely related to ducks and geese
than to modern ostriches, and its heavy, prominent beak points to its
having had a carnivorous diet.
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