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Sydney, Australia, Mar 16 (EFE).- The remains of a raptor discovered in South Australia are that of a giant extinct eagle with a three-meter wingspan and talons large enough to hunt kangaroos, an academic report said Thursday. Flinders University fossil hunters pieced together its story after new research of fossil cave remains found in South …
For more than a century, evolutionary biologists assumed that a specimen unearthed in South Australia was a strong grave eagle (Taphaetus lacertosus). Nevertheless, fresh study has made known its actual classification system: it's a hawk, and it's the nation's first.