Episode #1002

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News Items

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              • Science or Fiction

                • Item #1 Science

                  Pelagornis sandersi was the largest flying bird to ever live, with a wingspan of 6.4 meters, more than twice as long as a modern albatross. https://www.sci.news/paleontology/science-pelagornis-sandersi-largest-ever-flying-bird-02046.html

                • Item #2 Fiction

                  Kelenken guillermoi, a member of the terror bird family of South America, is the largest bird to have ever lived, at up to 10 feet tall and 350 kg. https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.181295

                • Item #3 Science

                  Homo floresiensis, the hobbit-sized human cousins, shared the island of Flores with a giant meat-eating stork that would have towered over them at 6 feet tall. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leptoptilos_robustus

                Skeptical Quote of the Week.

                ‘Quackery gives birth to nothing; gives death to all things.’ Thomas Carlyle