Six million years ago, the skies of Argentina were home to fearsome predator – Argentavis magnificens ... Once in the air, the flapping flight that small birds use was out of the question ...

A team led by Sankar Chatterjee of Texas Tech University used computer programs originally designed for aircraft to analyze the probable flight characteristics of Argentavis magnificens ...

Using computer simulations to model the flight of prehistoric Argentavis magnificens, scientists have found that the bird -- which weighed 150 pounds and had a 23-foot wingspan -- was capable of ...

With an estimated 20- to 24-foot wingspan, the creature surpassed the previous record holder -- an extinct bird named Argentavis magnificens ... designed to predict flight performance given ...

Researchers at Texas Tech University used computer programs originally designed for aircraft to analyze the probable flight characteristics of Argentavis magnificens, a giant bird that lived in ...

But among them, some stand out for their massive wingspans and astonishing flight capabilities. From the Andean condor and ...

But they didn't know if Argentavis magnificens, the largest bird ever ... of Texas Tech University and his colleagues estimated flight information from Argentavis fossil bones, and they input ...

Like modern condors, the six-million-year-old Argentavis magnificens —the largest bird known to have taken flight—may have relied on updrafts and thermals to soar above what is now Argentina.

For birds that depend on flight to find food and mates and ... But rewind 6 million years, and the extinct Argentavis magnificens of the Miocene Epoch in what is now Argentina clocked in at ...

Chatterjee's past research revealed the likely flight trick of another hefty prehistoric aviator, Argentavis magnificens: It relied on updrafts to help lift it into the air. Chatterjee said the ...

Until now, the biggest known flying bird was the extinct Argentavis magnificens ... shape into a computer program designed to predict flight performance. The researchers estimated the bird ...