Our prehistoric history is weird. Dinosaurs were terrifyingly beautiful beasts. One of our ancient ape ancestors was ten feet tall and looked like Bigfoot. The ancient, shark-like creature Helicoprion ...

More than 16 million years ago in what is now New Zealand, a giant bird died and sank to the bottom of a lake. Preserved in layers of sand and gray-blue clay, the bones of this behemoth have since ...

Reconstruction of the giant parrot Heracles, with small New Zealand wrens for scale. Dr Brian Choo, Flinders University In 2008, a pair of ancient avian leg bones were discovered at St Bathans, a ...