Initially, its enormous size had been explained through suggestions it was closely related to the wedge-tailed eagle, the largest bird of prey currently living in Australia. Joanne says that it was ...

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the eagle is one of the largest birds of prey. There are over 60 eagle species in the world, with most living in Asia and Africa. Some eagles living in forests have small wingspans while those ...

Found only on the four major islands of the Philippines, Philippine eagles (Pithecophaga jefferyi) are one of the largest living eagle species – about a metre long and heavier than a bowling ball.

The bird has a wingspan of up to three metres and weighed 18kg. It was twice the size of the largest living eagle and its talons were as big as a tiger's claws. "It was certainly capable of ...

For more than a century, scientists have wondered whether a huge carnivorous bird that went extinct around 600 years ago was more of a predatory eagle or a gut-raiding vulture. Now we finally have ...