PING Mister Puddleduck

Relative of yours, is it, mate?

The demon duck of doom
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It strode across ancient Australia on a pair of gigantic legs, a bird so
terrifying it put powerful predators off their food. Stephanie Pain is
awestruck by a duck.

THE dinosaurs are long dead. This is the age of the mammals. And this is
Australia. So what's big enough and fearsome enough to chase a hungry
marsupial lion away from its kill? Wait for it-a duck.

Clearly this is no ordinary duck. It is almost 3 metres tall, with legs like
tree trunks, a body like a tank and a head the size of a horse's-with a
terrible beak. Meet the demon duck of doom.

... "The beak was a huge pair of secateurs that could scissor out chunks of
meat," he says. "It could hook into your thigh and rip out ...

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg16622404.800.html

http://www.lostkingdoms.com/images/s..._duckskull.jpg



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September 2005 and April 2006

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