Cathartes emsliei

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title: Cathartes emsliei
text: Emslie's vulture is an extinct species of vulture in the family Cathartidae. It is only known from a series of fossils found in western Cuba. The fossils were primarily found in caves or Quaternary asphalt deposits. It is significantly smaller than the extant C. aura. It likely became extinct during the Holocene following the extinction of Cuban Pleistocene megafauna whose bodies it would have fed on, coupled with the loss of the open savannas it would have inhabited. Both its common and scienti
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description: Extinct species of bird
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date modified: 2023-04-26T15:37:32Z
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