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By contrast to the very delicate pelican humerus and ulna in the previous post, here is the left femur of Aepyornis OUMNH 4950 — an “elephant bird” from Antolanbiby, Madagascar.

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Go home Eremotherium laurillardi, you are drunk.

Seriously, Megatherium americanum, do you even lift?

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Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!

In 2012, Matt and I spent a week in New York, mostly working at the AMNH on “ Apatosaurus “ minimus and a few other specimens that caught our eye.