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Skull fossil reveals prehistoric Australian 'Giga-Goose'

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It's been dubbed the 'Giga-Goose'. For more than 100 years, palaeontologists have been trying to put a face to a prehistoric thunderbird that roamed Australia up to 45,000 years ago. Now, the discovery of an intact skull has solved the mystery.
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