Victoria Fossil Cave, as the cavern is now known, warehouses the bones of something like 45,000 ... Australia's large animals is one of the planet's most baffling paleontological mysteries. For ...
About 45,000 years ago, a now-extinct species of giant, flightless bird called Genyornis newtoni tramped through the forests of Australia. They are known as thunder birds or mihirungs, an ...
About 50,000 years ... of Australia on muscular legs. They stood taller than humans and weighed hundreds of kilograms. The last of the mihirungs went extinct around 45,000 years ago.