Long before big cats, terror birds reigned as apex predators. Here’s how these flightless birds hunted, and why they went ...
Millions of years ago, long-legged, big-beaked, meat-eating “terror birds” stalked the Americas. The imposing creatures ruled the roost as top predators of their ...
A 2-metre-tall flightless bird may have been the top predator in what is now Antarctica 50 million years ago. Two 8-centimetre fossil claws found on Seymour Island, near the tip of the Antarctic ...
A 12-million-year-old fossil of a prehistoric "terror bird" discovered in South America might represent the largest known member of its kind found to date, a study ...
Millions of years ago, apex predators in the Phorusrhacidae family lived up to their more common name—terror birds. The mostly flightless, meat-eating dinosaur descendents were the size of dogs at ...
Skeleton of the terror bird Titanis walleri at the Florida Museum of Natural History. (Amanda via Wikimedia Commons / Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic) (CN ...
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