How the world’s largest bird flew
Saturday, July 21st, 2007The Star, 8 July 2007 IT CRUISED the skies above the Argentine pampas about six million years ago, a soaring behemoth of a bird, the size of a modern light aircraft, dragging about 63kg in ballast. But with little in the way of muscle to flap its wings and propel itself through the air, just [...]