The remains of a super-sized parrot that stood more than half the height of an average human and roamed the Earth 19 million years ago have been discovered in New Zealand.
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The parrot has been named Heracles inexpectatus to reflect its Herculean size and strength and the unexpected nature of the discovery.
Heracles inexpectatus, the largest parrot ever discovered, was twice the size of the critically endangered flightless New Zealand kakapo, previously the largest known parrot.
According to a report published in the latest edition of Biology Letters, the flightless birds were at least one metre tall, and weighed up to seven kilograms.
Evidence of the parrot was unearthed in fossils near St. Bathans in southern New Zealand.
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