This is Episode 52. Today, we’re talking about bird species that are way, way bigger than your average chickadee or finch.Our focus will be on evolutionary lineages that spawned some very large bird species. Species whose ancestors had been much smaller, millions of years earlier.We’ll look at a bunch of interesting giant birds throughout history. Then we’ll talk about some scientific explanations for why these critters got so big in the first place.~~ Leave me a review using Podchaser ~~Links of InterestThe Time Terror Birds Invaded [Video]Takahe - Return to the Wild [Video]Island GigantismLink to this episode on the Science of Birds websiteBird Merch - See the NEW shirt designs!Support the show

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