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Skeleton of an Extinct Flightless Toothed Bird, Hesperornis

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The bird was five or six feet high, something like a swimming ostrich, with a very powerful leg but only a vestige of a wing. There were sharp teeth in a groove. The modern divers come nearest to this ancient type.