A newly declared species may be the largest flying bird to ever live

... to lift it unaided. The answer came from Dan Ksepka, the paleontologist and science curator of the Bruce Museum in Greenwich, Conn., who modeled a probable method of flight for the long-extinct bird, named as a new species this week in the ...

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