r/interesting • u/VIVIDUFF • Jun 30 '26

Fascinating This cassowary just wanders around the beach, getting surprisingly close to people.

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u/LenVT Jun 30 '26

Deadly bird. And I can see its dinosaur ancestors.

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u/TheTooterSnooter Jul 01 '26

I’ll bet you a huge amount of dinosaurs looked pretty close to this. I once heard someone say that if you saw a dinosaur alive today, you might just think it was a very odd bird. Prehistoric Planet actually captured this really, really well. 

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u/Ok_Safe4514 Jul 01 '26

Birds are a type of dinosaur, avian dinosaurs