500 Years Ago, A Giant Eagle In New Zealand Was Possibly Eating Children
In a paper published in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology , scientists make the typeface that an extinct giant predatory eagle might have been eating child . The eagle was not a magpie , as some believe , but a deadly hunter . Of course , the paper ’s principal conclusion is n’t that the 40 - pound predator of the sky was rust tiddler . The real meaning of the paper is that the bird was n’t the pack rat that some paleontologists thought it was ....