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	Prehistoric Giant Goose Skull Found

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/fd0b650b-1094-483c-a380-c1f3e7acb91e/3D1CC0FC-B972-4136-99B0-F5B9AB026CDC/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.livescience.com/animals/080926-giant-geese.html" href="http://www.livescience.com/animals/080926-giant-geese.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.livescience.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.livescience.com/animals/080926-giant-geese.html"><P>By <A href="http://www.livescience.com/php/contactus/author.php?r=at">Andrea Thompson</A>, Senior Writer</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.livescience.com/animals/080926-giant-geese.html"><DIV class="col4 right" id="related_images_module">
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					<DT><A href="http://www.livescience.com/php/multimedia/imagedisplay/img_display.php?s=animals&c=news&l=on&pic=080926-dasornis-art-02.jpg&cap=An+artist%27s+conception+of+an+ancient+giant+pseudo-toothed+bird%2C+or+pelagornithid.+Credit:+Ludger+Bollen%2C+from+%22Der+Flug+des+Archaeopteryx%22%2C+Quelle%2BMeyer+Vlg.&title="><IMG src="http://i.livescience.com/images/080926-dasornis-art-01.jpg" /></A></DT><DD>An artist's conception of an ancient giant pseudo-toothed bird, or pelagornithid. Credit: Ludger Bollen, from "Der Flug des Archaeopteryx", Quelle+Meyer Vlg.</DD><DT><A href="http://www.livescience.com/php/multimedia/imagedisplay/img_display.php?s=animals&c=news&l=on&pic=080926-dasornis-skull-02.jpg&cap=The+skull+of+Dasornis%2C+showing+the+fossil+specimen+and+a+reconstruction+of+the+complete+skull.+Credit:+Fred+Clouter&title="><IMG src="http://i.livescience.com/images/080926-dasornis-skull-01.jpg" /></A></DT><DD>The skull of Dasornis, showing the fossil specimen and a reconstruction of the complete skull. Credit: Fred Clouter</DD>				</DL>
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Scientists have found a new huge and well-preserved fossil of a goose and duck relative that swam around what is now England 50 million years ago flashing sharp, toothy smiles.
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The skull, discovered on the Isle of Sheppey off the southeast coast of England in the Thames Estuary, belonged to a <A href="http://www.livescience.com/history/060112_ap_bird_hunt.html">huge ancient bird</A>  in the extinct genus <EM>Dasornis</EM>, which had a whopping 16-foot (5-meter) wingspan.
</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.livescience.com/animals/080926-giant-geese.html">"Imagine a bird like an ocean-going goose almost the size of a small plane!" said Gerald Mayr</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/3D1CC0FC-B972-4136-99B0-F5B9AB026CDC/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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