What is being measured?
Comparison uses the midpoint of the Australian Museum’s 2–2.25 m reconstructed-size range. Published standing-height range for this extinct flightless bird. This is a midpoint of an estimate range, not a measured living-animal mean.
The comparison uses the midpoint of the stated range. That midpoint is a chosen reference, not a measured population mean.
- Dimension
- reconstructed standing height
- Reference value
- 2.125 m
- Evidence
- Chosen midpoint of a documented range
- In metres
- 2.125 m
- Source range
- 2–2.25 m
- What the range means
- Published standing-height range for this extinct flightless bird.
Put the length in perspective
One Genyornis newtoni represents approximately 24.8 card lengths measured end to end. This is a length ratio; it does not calculate how the objects pack or fit.
Genyornis newtoni · 2.125 m
Metre · 1 m
Foot (international) · 0.3048 m