The Pachystruthio dmanisensis weighed round 3 times that of than an ostrich.
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Emus and Ostriches are harmful. We all know this. They’re so hardcore the Australian Military formally misplaced a warfare with them in 1932.
Now think about they had been larger. A lot larger. Like as tall as an elephant larger.
Meet the Pachystruthio dmanisensis, a big flightless hen that when stood three.5 metres tall (for scale an African elephant usually stands at three.three metres tall). It weighed round 450kg, which is round 3 times the burden of an ostrich, at the moment the most important dwelling hen on the planet.
Over 1.2 million years in the past, scientists suppose they might have lived alongside human beings in Europe.
As mentioned in analysis not too long ago revealed within the Journal of Verterbrate Paleontology, the Pachystruthio dmanisensis roamed japanese Europe at a time when the earliest identified people had been arriving from Africa.
Curiously, versus different prehistoric birds of its measurement, the Pachystruthio dmanisensis is believed to have been a good runner (though not as quick as trendy Emus or Ostriches) and truly took down younger mammoths as prey.
To reiterate: this gigantic, elephant-sized hen hunted mammoths.
The Pachystruthio dmanisensis is believed to be the largest hen ever present in Europe, nevertheless it is not the world’s greatest hen, traditionally. That title belongs to the Vorobe Titan, which as soon as weighed 800 kilograms and lived in Madagascar. Undecided if that hen tried to take down mammoths, although. Essential distinction.
