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Llallawavis is most complete terror bird ever

Adam Khor · 2015-03-24 21:24:26

Not a lot of info just yet, but the photographs speak for themselves. The skull is particularly interesting because of it's completeness, it includes the palate bones, the sclerotic ring and the inner ear bones (which suggest it was adapted to detect lower frequencies than most modern birds- maybe they were communicating…

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24-03-2015 10:24pm

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Adam Khor

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Not a lot of info just yet, but the photographs speak for themselves. The skull is particularly interesting because of it's completeness, it includes the palate bones, the sclerotic ring and the inner ear bones (which suggest it was adapted to detect lower frequencies than most modern birds- maybe they were communicating with infrasounds, like cassowaries?)

https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/seymouria/conversations/messages/7318

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#2 10-04-2015 6:57pm
Adam Khor

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And it spoke with infrasounds :B

http://news.discovery.com/animals/10-foot-tall-terror-bird-spoke-in-a-low-voice-1504101.htm

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It is quite feasible for all mega budgies like this to have used infrasound I would have thought.

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