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Are ravens as fast as on Game of Thrones? You asked Google – here’s the answer | Ella Davies

Every day millions of internet users ask Google life’s most difficult questions, big and small. Our writers answer some of the commonest queries
‘The daddy of the crow family can soar, using thermals, much like eagles and other large birds of prey.’ Photograph: Alamy Stock Photo

When it comes to speed records, one animal beats all others on both land and a Google search. But the cheetah has now been usurped by the not-so-humble raven. This is thanks to a particularly fantastical bit of editing in the penultimate episode of season seven of . No spoilers here. All I’ll say is that it left the audience wondering just what kind of flight speed the daddy of the crow family can muster if it were to have

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