The first Australians ate the giant eggs of huge flightless birds, researchers confirm

The 50,000-year-old eggshell fragments were discovered 40 years ago.🥚🔍

, University of Copenhagen researchers and their international colleagues demonstrated that they can only belong to the last of a unique duck-like line of megafauna. The Demon Ducks of Doom.. As such, we have laid to rest a very long and heated debate about the origin of these eggs," said co-author and UCPH Professor Matthew Collins, whose area of research is evolutionary genetics.Genyornis eggshell recently exposed by wind erosion of sand dune in which it was buried, South Australia.

They then pulverized the proteins with bleach. After collecting the various small protein parts, the researchers assembled them in the right order and explored their structure by using artificial intelligence.

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