Million-Year-Old Fossil of a 'Super Ostrich' Almost the Size of a Polar Bear Amazes Researchers Extinct animals provide ...

Scientists can learn a lot about extinct animals by studying their footprints ... by doing so, the ostrich-like creatures might have helped maintain healthy forests on the South Pacific island.

the researchers found that the extinct birds are most closely related to the geographically far-flung kiwi, and evolutionarily distant from the physically closer ostrich. What's more, dating of ...