Baby-eating Storks?

Dear Professor Palmer, I was on facebook the other day and stumbled across an article that mentioned the Flores People. Considering that our class is soon going to have a debate about the Flores people I looked at it. The article is about an interesting theory that some scientists have about another cohabitant of the islands. Scientists recently found a very large bird that is a relative of the modern stork. These birds could have been up to six feet tall and heavy. Due to their heaviness these birds could no longer fly and resorted to eating meat. Some have speculated that these birds actually ate the small Flores children or even scavenged the dead adult bodies. This seems to be just specultation and is not backed up by any scientific evidence as of yet but none the less I thought the concept was interesting.

 http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2011/01/25/133178380/killer-stork... .