Now that's a big bird. Nineteen million-year-old fossils of a giant parrot that ate members of its own species have been found in New Zealand. Standing up to 3 feet in height, researchers have dubbed ...

Islands are natural laboratories for a variety of fascinating avian evolutionary experiments, particularly islands that lack mammalian predators. New Zealand, for example, is home to a variety of ...

Back in prehistoric times, everything was a monster compared to today including human-sized penguins and parrots nearly the size of furry mascots. Two recent fossilized bones discoveries in New ...

Aug. 7 (UPI) --Scientists didn't set out to unearth the biggest parrot in history, but that's what they what found. Paleontologists found the remains of the giant parrot in 19-million-year-old ...

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