Giant ‘toothed’ birds flew over Antarctica 40 million to 50 million years ago

By: Peter A. Kloess, University of California, Berkeley, The Conversation

Outlets: The Conversation

Published: November 15, 2025

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Last Updated: 1 week, 2 days ago

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Picture Antarctica today and what comes to mind? Large ice floes bobbing in the Southern Ocean? Maybe a remote outpost populated with scientists from around the world? Or perhaps colonies of penguins puttering amid vast open tracts of snow?

Fossils from Seymour Island, just off the Antarctic Peninsula, are painting a very different picture of what Antarctica looked like 40 to 50 million years ago – a time when the ecosystem was lusher and …

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