Rivero's barn owl

Rivero's barn owl (Tyto riveroi) is an extinct species of barn owl that was very large — bigger than any extant barn owl species, and possibly larger than any known owl alive today.^[1] It is thought to have been nearly as large as (but probably not as tall as) another extinct gigantic owl, Ornimegalonyx.^[2] Suárez and Olson demoted T. riveroi as a junior synonym of Tyto pollens in 2015.^[3]

Rivero's barn owl Temporal range: Pleistocene
Restoration
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Strigiformes
Family:	Tytonidae
Genus:	Tyto
Species:	T. riveroi
Binomial name
Tyto riveroi Arredondo, 1972