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Great Currasow (female) sketch

Houston Zoo successfully hatches 2 rare Blue-billed Curassow chicks

The Houston Zoo successfully hatched two new Blue-billed Curassow chicks yesterday. Considered some of the most critically endangered birds, the Houston Zoo will be hand-rearing one chick (cared for by a person after hatching) and using the blue-billed curassow hen to parent-rear the other chick.

By Ripley Cook on @iguanodont

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Name: Boreortalis laesslei 

Status: Extinct

First Described: 1954

Described By: Brodkorb 

Classification: Dinosauria, Saurischia, Eusaurischia, Theropoda, Neotheropoda, Averostra, Tetanurae, Orionides, Avetheropoda, Coelurosauria, Tyrannoraptora, Maniraptoriformes, Maniraptora, Pennaraptora, Paraves, Eumaniraptora, Averaptora, Avialae, Euavialae, Avebrevicauda, Pygostylia, Ornithothoraces, Euornithes, Ornithuromorpha, Ornithurae, Neornithes, Neognathae, Galloanserae, Pangalliformes, Galliformes, Cracidae 

Boreortalis is our first probable Cracid! The Cracids are a group of distinctive chickeny dinosaurs such as the Currasow, Guans, and Chachalacas. Boreortalis is the oldest definite record of these dinosaurs, known from the Alachua Formation of Florida, as well as the Snake Creek Formation of Nebraska. As such, it lived from about 20.5 until 12 million years ago, from the Aquitanian until the Serravallian ages of the Miocene of the Neogene. It seems to be the most similar to the Chachalacas, a group of chickeny birds known from the southern United States, Mexico, and Central and South America. As it is known from fairly limited material, very little more can be said about it. 

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Sources: 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cracidae 

http://fossilworks.org/bridge.pl?a=collectionSearch&taxon_no=39332&max_interval=Miocene&country=United%20States&state=Nebraska&is_real_user=1&basic=yes&type=view&match_subgenera=1 

http://fossilworks.org/bridge.pl?a=collectionSearch&taxon_no=39332&max_interval=Miocene&country=United%20States&state=Florida&is_real_user=1&basic=yes&type=view&match_subgenera=1 

http://fossilworks.org/bridge.pl?a=taxonInfo&taxon_no=39332