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Why Have Birds Never Gotten as Big as T. Rex?
A Haast’s eagle attacks a moa pair. John Megahan, PLOS Biology, 3(1): e20 via Wikipedia under CC By 2.5 Evolution has a fondness for big birds. During the past 66 million years, repeated on different continents and islands all over the world, avian …