Image: Hesperornis Regalis - Project Gutenberg eText 16474

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Description: Hesperornis regalis, a species of ancient flightless bird, as drawn by Othniel Marsh. This reconstruction is obsolete; the bird was not able to assume such a posture without disjointing its legs.
Title: Hesperornis Regalis - Project Gutenberg eText 16474
Credit: Online, [1]; originally from Marsh's 1880-1881 printing Odontornithes, a Monograph on the Extinct Toothed Birds of North America. (Government Printing Office, Washington DC). Also reprinted in The Legacy of the Mastodon by Keith Stewart Thomson (Yale University Press/2008).
Author: Othniel Charles Marsh (1831 – 1899)
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License: Public domain
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