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Ancient humans made giant omelets from the eggs of ‘Demon Ducks of Doom’
syfy-wire ^ | June 4, 2022, 1:00 PM ET | Cassidy Ward

Posted on 06/05/2022 9:07:14 PM PDT by BenLurkin

“Genyornis was two meters tall and 200 kilos. We don’t know exactly what it would have looked like because it’s been dead for a while and there are few skeletal remains available. It was certainly a flightless bird with some characteristics shared with ostriches, like the big chest and small wings, but it would have looked more like a big goose or duck,”

The evidence that humans were eating these large eggs comes from burnt eggshells found among the remains of ancient cultures. Scientists studying these sites find two different types of eggshells, one of which comes from emus and another which was unknown. Looking at the archaeological record, we find that the eggshells start being burned right around the same time people first arrived in Australia. This supports the notion that they were cooking and eating them as they had done with other large, flightless birds in Africa, India, and Eurasia.

“Genyornis was a really big bird. If you look at its femur, it’s huge. So, you would expect the egg to be as big and as thick as an ostrich, but ostrich eggs are significantly thicker. The whole argument was based on morphological traits of these eggshells, so the idea came up that perhaps it was an egg from an extinct megapode,”

“If you compare the proteins from a bunch of living birds, including the megapodes, you can sort of build a tree that’s good at separating out the major groups. All of the ostriches went on one side, all the land fowl go on another side, and then there’s the waterfowl. When we extracted proteins from the eggshell, we found that it never falls within the chicken and megapode group,”

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1 posted on 06/05/2022 9:07:14 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

The Duck of Death

2 posted on 06/05/2022 9:20:31 PM PDT by Ken H (Trump /DeSantis)
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To: BenLurkin; Gamecock; SaveFerris; PROCON; mylife; Rebelbase; SunkenCiv
Guess I'll be getting the extra toast, then.


3 posted on 06/05/2022 9:21:29 PM PDT by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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To: BenLurkin

Tastes like chicken. Or ostrich.


4 posted on 06/05/2022 9:23:21 PM PDT by ETCM
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To: Monkey Face; Tax-chick; ArGee; zzeeman; null and void; y'all

Future Undead Thread?


5 posted on 06/05/2022 9:24:11 PM PDT by Allegra
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To: BenLurkin
there were also giant eagles gthat preyed on these monster birds-


6 posted on 06/05/2022 9:30:40 PM PDT by Bob434 (.)
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So, could they tell what they seasoned the omelets with?

jalapenos, habaneros, and some sharp cheddar cheese?


7 posted on 06/05/2022 9:33:36 PM PDT by doorgunner69 (Let's go Brandon)
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8 posted on 06/05/2022 10:09:03 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: BenLurkin

I have a suspicion that if dinosaurs were magically brought back that we would discover that they tasted like delicious chicken and then hunt them to extinction. A 10 year-old girl with a 50 cal rifle could take out a T-Rex with ease.


9 posted on 06/05/2022 11:43:31 PM PDT by WMarshal (Neocons and leftists are the same species of vicious rat.)
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To: BenLurkin

Reminds me of a certain scene from the movie “Caveman”.😏


10 posted on 06/06/2022 12:03:23 AM PDT by BiteYourSelf ( Earth first we'll strip mine the other planets later.)
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To: BenLurkin

Doom Duck Eggs and Spam.


11 posted on 06/06/2022 1:12:42 AM PDT by bakeneko
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To: BenLurkin

Eggs Denosivan


12 posted on 06/06/2022 1:55:00 AM PDT by bunkerhill7 (That`s 464 people per square foot! Is this corrrect..it was NYC.)
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To: Allegra

Heck yeah. Animal Kingdom Weirdness!


13 posted on 06/06/2022 2:16:46 AM PDT by Tax-chick (Nature, art, silence, simplicity, peace. And fungi.)
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Another undead thread candidate...


14 posted on 06/06/2022 2:41:01 AM PDT by null and void (We're trapped between too many questions unanaswered, and too many answers unquestioned...)
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I like it. Summer’s coming, time to ramp up the absurdity quotient.


15 posted on 06/06/2022 2:48:35 AM PDT by Tax-chick (Nature, art, silence, simplicity, peace. And fungi.)
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To: BenLurkin

I once made an omelet from an ostrich egg. Caused me to stick my head in the sand for a bit. Never again.


16 posted on 06/06/2022 5:11:25 AM PDT by LastDayz (A blunt and brazen Texan. I will not be assimilated.)
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To: Bob434

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pd9hKZAQF3g


17 posted on 06/06/2022 5:14:10 AM PDT by RckyRaCoCo (Please Pray For My Brother Ken.)
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18 posted on 06/06/2022 5:21:19 AM PDT by Flag_This
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To: WMarshal

Yep. A .416 Remington Mag will kill Godzilla or anything that every lived!


19 posted on 06/06/2022 5:34:09 AM PDT by cb
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When the Mora first arrived in New Zealand there were bigger birds than that living there. NOW extinct.


20 posted on 06/06/2022 5:35:17 AM PDT by cb
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