Big Bird Goes Viral

On Jan. 15, 2019, Jackson School of Geosciences doctoral candidate Sarah Davis shared this picture of a male southern cassowary’s claws on Twitter and caught the internet’s attention — garnering nearly 15,000 likes and dozens of questions about the origins of the claw and whether it belonged to a bird or a dinosaur. Davis’ response? “Both.”

This story is part of the 2019 Jackson School Newsletter. Read it in the Newsletter

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