This has absolutely nothing to do with BBC bias but a blog is a blog is a blog...and I'm bursting to pass on the news that some scientists now suspect that the massive flightless Terror Birds - which (or so we've previously thought) stood atop the food chain (long) after the demise of the dinosaurs, chasing down and devouring mammals with their vicious curved beaks (you may have seen them starring in an episode of the BBC's Walking with Beasts, scaring the bejesus out of watching children) - may have been...and sorry to break the news to you...vegetarian.
Scientists assessing the composition of their fossils have found that they contain a calcium composition comparable to that of plant-munching mammals and dinosaurs. Carnivores have a different calcium composition.
This follows news that the Terror bird's footprints lacked the expected sharp claws of a butcher, and the concerns of other scientists that the bird's size would have made it a slow sprinter, thus allowing its prey to see it coming and run off at their leisure, sticking their tongues out and blowing raspberries at it as they went. (The Terror Bird would probably have eaten raspberries, if they'd evolved by then!)
So maybe the Terror Bird needs re-branding as the Grass-Scaring Bird.
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