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New species of ground-dwelling bird, the largest of its kind, identified in same cave as Homo floresiensis

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In 2009, researchers working in the Liang Bua cave on Flores Island came across a leg bone. The 190,000–120,000-year-old fossil was identified as a bird bone and set aside. Like many bird bones before it, it was overlooked and left to collect dust.

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    New species of ground-dwelling bird, the largest of its kind, identified in same cave as Homo floresiensis

    In 2009, researchers working in the Liang Bua cave on Flores Island came across a leg bone. The 190,000–120,000-year-old fossil was identified as a bird bone and set aside. Like many bird bones before it, it was overlooked and left to collect dust.

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