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Did Australia have birds bigger than emus and cassowaries?

Australia was indeed home to still larger birds: the Dromornithidae, also known as ‘thunder birds’ or ‘demon ducks’. may have been the largest avian species ever to have existed, standing up to three metres tall and weighing

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