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Gastornis, also known as Diatryma, was a prehistoric neognath bird. It was smaller and more robust than the terror bird featured in Sabre Tooth; it lived 56-41 MYA, during the Paleocene and the early Eocene. Strangely, it's been questioned whether this animal was a herbivore or a carnivore or even an omnivore. In 2014, The body structure of gastornis fossils led scientists to classify gastornis as a herbivorous animal.

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  • Gastornis, also known as Diatryma, was a prehistoric neognath bird. It was smaller and more robust than the terror bird featured in Sabre Tooth; it lived 56-41 MYA, during the Paleocene and the early Eocene. Strangely, it's been questioned whether this animal was a herbivore or a carnivore or even an omnivore. In 2014, The body structure of gastornis fossils led scientists to classify gastornis as a herbivorous animal.
  • thumb|GastornisGastornis (Gastons Vogel) auch Diatryma genannt, war ein gigantischer Raubvogel aus dem Eozän-Zeitalter. Fossilien des Gastornis wurden in Deutschland, Frankreich und den USA gefunden. Sein wichtigstes Merkmal ist der hohe Schnabel, der dem von Papageien gleicht, jedoch aufgrund seiner Größe nicht, wie bei Papageien, zum knacken von Nüssen geeignet ist. Im Gegensatz zu den Terrorvögeln, mit denen der Gastornis viele Ähnlichkeiten hat, ernährte er sich haupsächlich von sehr kleinen Säugetieren. Manche Wissenschaftler vermuten, dass es sich sogar um einen Pflanzenfresser handelt.
  • Gastornis lived in the forest millions of years ago after dinosaurs in Germany. It is the european version of a terror bird. It once was called Diatryma. It is featured in the documentary Walking with Beasts.
  • Gastornis is an extinct genus of large flightless birds that lived during the late Paleocene and Eocene epochs of the Cenozoic era. Gastornis were very large birds, and have traditionally been considered to be predators of small mammals. However, several lines of evidence, including the lack of hooked claws in known Gastornis footprints and studies of their beak structure, have caused scientists to reinterpret these birds as herbivores which probably fed on tough plant material and seeds.
  • Gastornis (meaning "Gaston's bird"), formerly Diatryma, is an extinct genus of large flightless bird that lived during the late Paleocene and Eocene periods of the Cenozoic. It was named in 1855, after Gaston Planté, who had discovered the first fossils in Argile Plastique formation deposits at Meudon near Paris (France). At that time, Planté (described as a "studious young man full of zeal") was at the start of his academic career, and his remarkable discovery was soon to be overshadowed by his subsequent achievements in physics.
  • Gastornis (pronounced /ɡæˈstɔrnɨs/, meaning "Gaston's bird", formerly known as Diatryma), is an extinct genus of large flightless bird that lived during the late Paleocene and Eocene periods of the Cenozoic. It was named in 1855, after Gaston Planté, who had discovered the first fossils in Argile Plastique formation deposits at Meudon near Paris (France). At that time, Planté (described as a "studious young man full of zeal") was at the start of his academic career, and his remarkable discovery was soon to be overshadowed by his subsequent achievements in physics. In the 1870s, the famous American paleontologist Edward Drinker Cope discovered another, more complete set of fossils in North America, and named them Diatryma (pronounced /ˌdaɪəˈtriːmə/[citation needed] DYE-ə-TREE-mə, from Ancie
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  • Walking with Beasts: New Dawn
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  • Gastornis geiselensis
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