In Australia, we found a flying kangaroo-sized turkey

Australian scientists have discovered the remains of a "giant flying turkey" the size of a gray kangaroo. The bird belongs to the actually extinct family of Bolshengs and are ancient relatives of the modern Moluccan bolshenga, which builds mounds of earth and fallen leaves in which it lays eggs.

Progura gallinacea, the so-called discovered species, most likely these hillocks did not do, because their claws are not suitable for such work. Instead, it is likely that they simply buried their eggs in warm sand or soil, just as some bolsheni do in Indonesia and the Pacific Islands.

A group of researchers from the Flinders University in Adelaide evaluated old and new fossil findings during the preparation of their report. Some of the old samples were found in the late 1800s; The new ones were discovered in the caves of Western Australia. In general, scientists described five new extinct extensions, of which Progura gallinacea was the largest. Although many large extinct birds, such as drones were flightless, Progura gallinacea, according to scientists, could certainly go up in the air. These birds lived in the Pleistocene - a period of time that began 2,588 million years ago and ended 11,7 thousand years ago. This means that they existed along with some of the iconic representatives of the megafauna, such as the giant marsupials, which disappeared shortly after humans first appeared on the Australian continent.