1 The changing image of Genyornis newtoni, reconstructed as a stocky emu-like ratite in 1979 (left) (after H. Galiano in Rich (1979)) and as a gigantic goose-like anseriform bird in 2004 (right) (after P. Murray in Murray and Rich (2004)). These are shown on either side of the skeleton of this fossil bird (after Rich (1979)).