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Subject: Re: New research lends credence to thunderbird accounts? From: mysticete posted Mon, Sep 14 2009, 9:53am  Harpagornis is endemic to New Zealand, and filled the ecological niche filled by carnivorous mammals elsewhere in the world. While it may have and probably contributed to Maori legends of man-eating birds, it almost certainly has nothing to do with NA thunderbirds. Subject: Re: New research lends credence to thunderbird accounts? From: MJLehde posted Wed, Sep 16 2009, 10:58pm  The largest flying bird was called something like Argentinus Magnificus (I know I'm spelling that wrong but I'm lazy and it's too late to look it up) and had a wing span that was well over twenty feet. It should have been extinct long before man arrived on this side of the world but it must have been an incredible creature all the same. If you are looking for a Thunderbird suspect, which is a reach anyway, why not go for broke and pick the lord of all birds instead of a misplaced New Zealand killer eagle. Subject: Re: New research lends credence to thunderbird accounts? From: Ella posted Thu, Nov 5 2009, 2:10am  Argentavis magnificens lived during the Miocene period--long before human beings arrived in the Americas, or anywhere else, for that matter, according to science. D. L. Tanner's novel, Track of the Thunderbird (I think I have the title correct) used this bird as the T-bird, but that was just crypto-fiction, as it would be impossible for such a creature to have survived for so many millions of years and not be seen. Good novel, though. Subject: Re: New research lends credence to thunderbird accounts? From: MJLehde posted Sun, Nov 8 2009, 2:52pm  I have not read that book but since I enjoy a good crypto fiction read as much as the next guy I will have to look it up. Thanks Ella

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