The Gooney Bird was a creature native to the surface of a polluted Termight in the distant future.
Biology[]
An avian creature that resembles animated passenger plane. It is neither bird nor machine, but a strange mutation of both. After Earth later Termight became so polluted, these creatures arose to populate the surface, forcing the humans to move underground, moving their entire civilization there. While humans were still spacefaring and continued their conquests to the stars against the alien, the sighting of Gooney Birds became rare that most assumed them to be legends made up by the Terminators.
On the rare occasion when tube liner approach the surface for offworld traffic, they prey on vehicles and their riders to eat or feed its young. The origins of these creature is unknown but it is known that they reproduce and make nest in petrified cities that dot the ruined surface of Termight.
Source[]
- 2000 AD Progs 178 (1980)