New research reveals the breeding patterns of the species could not keep pace with a more demanding environment
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The demise of Australia’s thunder birds 40,000 years ago has previously been blamed on human nest raiders and crippling bone disease.
However new research reveals the extinction of dromornithids may have been down to something far more mundane: that they were just too slow to adapt to a changing environment.
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