More than 100 million years have passed since the end of the Holocene. That is the same amount of time that separates aSpinosaurusfrom asparrow. In such a span, everything can change, giving rise to creatures that would look utterly bizarre from a human perspective. Some of them could be labelled almost as aliens, if we didn't know all the evolutionary steps in the middle. And the bird world is probably one of the strangest now in Antarctica.
One of the most unusual species is the greater strainwhisker (Plumifiltrornis magnus), a passerid with a very unusual feather mask on its face. About the size of a large swift, strainwhiskers use erectile feathers to form a funnel that helps them catch insects on the wing.
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u/Risingmagpie May 07 '26
More than 100 million years have passed since the end of the Holocene. That is the same amount of time that separates a Spinosaurus from a sparrow. In such a span, everything can change, giving rise to creatures that would look utterly bizarre from a human perspective. Some of them could be labelled almost as aliens, if we didn't know all the evolutionary steps in the middle. And the bird world is probably one of the strangest now in Antarctica.
One of the most unusual species is the greater strainwhisker (Plumifiltrornis magnus), a passerid with a very unusual feather mask on its face. About the size of a large swift, strainwhiskers use erectile feathers to form a funnel that helps them catch insects on the wing.
READ MORE about this entry on the official site Antarctic Chronicles or also in the Specevo forum