Editing 3069: Terror Bird

{{comic
| number    = 3069
| date      = March 28, 2025
| title     = Terror Bird
| image     = terror_bird_2x.png
| imagesize = 342x274px
| noexpand  = true
| titletext = There has long been debate about Big Bird's species, with some experts claiming he was a canary, but recent genetic analysis places him firmly in Cariamiformes.
}}

==Explanation==
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This comic is a scene of two people, [[Jill]] and [[Hairy]], at a museum looking at a fossil of a prehistoric {{w|Phorusrhacidae|terror bird}}. [[Hairy]] thinks out loud that {{w|Big Bird}}, a Muppet character from {{w|Sesame Street}}, must be a terror bird, and wonders whether he will be updated to be more scientifically accurate, i.e. more scary. Big Bird, however, being from a show for little kids, would almost certainly never be made to look scary, and also, he was never intended to be a terror bird. That it is Big Bird that he is thinking of becomes clear in the title text.

The title text claims that there is ongoing scientific debate about Big Bird's species; initially, he was thought to be a {{w|Yellow canary|canary}}, likely due to his color, but scientists have placed him in the order {{w|Cariamiformes}}, which the terror birds belong to. This text is likely intended to mirror what somebody might say about the {{w|Seriema|seriemas}}, which are modern-day birds believed to have evolved from the terror bird, as if Big Bird were the descendant of these birds, in addition to or instead of seriemas. [https://www.pechakucha.com/presentations/what-if-anything-is-big-bird Actual scientific analysis] seems to suggest that Big Bird is in fact related to the {{w|whooping crane}}.

==Transcript==
:[Jill and Hairy are standing together, looking up at the skeleton of a very large bird. The skeleton, that towers more than two times the height of Hairy, is being displayed on a low podium. There is an information stand in front of the podium, for the benefit of visitors.]
:Hairy: Wow.
:Hairy: Now that we know how scary they were, do you think Sesame Street will update him?

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