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Post by Rockhopper Thu Mar 05, 2015 6:00 am

It's a Bird! The Size of a Plane!... Pelagornis-sandersi

What did the extinct bird Pelagornis sandersi eat? With a wingspan up to 24 feet and jaws lined with spiky, toothy projections, anything it wanted.

The massive seabird, known from a 25-million-year-old fossil excavated in South Carolina, has the largest wingspan of any bird ever found. It edges out the extinct South American condor-like Argentavis magnificens (with an estimated wingspan of 20 feet), and it dwarfs the largest living airborne bird, the wandering albatross (11-foot wingspan).

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