This is very cool: I've been convinced for over 20 years that Haast's Eagle was bald, and now there's an 11-authored morphometric analysis that confirms that, despite being a bird of prey, it fed like a vulture. (pic: Katrina Kenny) https://t.co/xuF8WC8Ej1
But penguins still have to haul themselves out onto land to lay eggs and raise chicks, which constrains them to seal-sized. Lots of marine reptiles figured out how to give birth to live young at sea, and got huge; birds never have, nobody’s quite sure why.
Phew! I've finished my year on the road as the @Wikimedia-funded NZ Wikipedian at Large, living out of the trusty Wikimobile.
• 16,000 km
• 33 institutions
• 84 events/talks/meetups
• 55 different addresses
(and only left my toothbrush behind once)
https://t.co/HodGYheoae
Moa skulls modelled to reconstruct how they fed (not like emus); by @DrSJNZ, I comment. https://t.co/ZyBt5j8lXf
