Armed with machine guns and 10,000 bullets, soldiers still couldn’t stop the giant birds. The post Emus once faced down the Australian army—and won appeared first on Popular Science.
In November 1932, the harsh southern sun beat down on an empty paddock in Western Australia. The soil is red and strewn with rocks. Three soldiers emerge from the haze: An officer and two gunners, th… [+8235 chars]
