Bird Fossil Found With Wing Span The Size Of A Small Plane

08 Jul 2014 by Jasmine Stone in Animals, Science, Tech/Sci

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We’re pretty lucky that humans didn’t live 25 million to 28 million years ago, because scientists have discovered another massive creature that would’ve definitely been one-up on us on the food chain.

Fossils of the Pelagornis sandersi were actually found in 1983, but were hidden in a drawer at the Charleston Museum until study author Daniel Ksepka, a paleontologist then at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, came across them about three decades later.

The extinct mega-bird would’ve had a wingspan of about 6.4 meters long, which must have made it a pretty frightening thing to see in full flight, but awesome nonetheless.

Check out the artist’s rendering of the giant death-bird below:

Read more about the discovery on the LA Times.

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