Researchers from the Russian Academy of Sciences say the bird weighed about 70 stone and believe it may have been a source of meat, bones, feathers and eggshell for early humans.
![[PaleoOrnithology • 2019] Pachystruthio dmanisensis • A Giant early Pleistocene Bird from eastern Europe: Unexpected Component of Terrestrial Faunas at the Time of early Homo arrival](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/11/6c/c4/116cc47dde70ee28267578972c2d61e7.png)
