(CNN) — Millions of years ago, long-legged, big-beaked, meat-eating “terror birds” stalked the Americas. The imposing creatures ruled the roost as top predators ...
(CNN) — Millions of years ago, long-legged, big-beaked, meat-eating “terror birds” stalked the Americas. The imposing creatures ruled the roost as top predators ...
The fossil of a giant carnivorous bird has been found in Patagonia, marking the largest-known avian skull to have been found. The fearsome fossil of a 10-foot-tall ...
Twelve million years ago, a huge flightless predator known as a “terror bird” sprinted across tropical floodplains in what is ...
Teeth marks made on the leg bone of a large avian reptile known as a terror bird 13 million years ago suggest an even bigger predator may have killed it, scientists ...
Such conditions typically encourage decay, reducing the chance of fossilization. The scarcity of Phorusrhacid fossils in this region may also suggest these species were apex predators, the researchers ...
The identification of part of the fossilized remains of a so-called "terror bird" species in South America has given researchers new insight into the apex predators ...
In Colombia, a fossil-collecting rancher has found a giant, flightless killer from 13 million years ago — and a missing link to the region’s evolutionary history. César Perdomo, a rancher and fossil ...
The term mid-size terror bird sounds kind of bizarre at first, as though terror birds, whatever they might be, come in a range of sizes, all of them a bit scary ...
12 million years ago, a fearsome predator roamed the ancient landscapes of South America. It was a giant, flightless bird popularly known as a “terror bird.” And ...
About 13 million years ago in a vast South American wetland, colossal predators clashed. The fossilised bone from an enormous flightless bird found in Colombia shows tooth marks made by a giant caiman ...
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