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HESPERORNIS

Hesperornis was the neck long huge seabird which there was the length as for 180cm, and it arrested a fish in the shallow sea of the American Kansas area. It inhabited in the latter period in the Cretaceous, but have become extinct. It had the long bill which formed a line of a big head and the small tooth. Unlike the other seabirds of the same period, Hesperornis lost ability to be blown off, and it become to a strong swimmer. It seems that it is the result that evolved as a hunter of the fish. There was a web to the big hind legs, and it was got big driving force, and the forepaw which degenerated may have been used by a helmsman.

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