(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 ...
Standing around 10 feet tall, weighing around 220 pounds and with an axe-like beak capable of delivering devastating strikes, the terror bird would have proved a ...
Terror birds are known to have lived between the Middle Eocene and Late Pleistocene about 43-0.1 million years ago. At least 20 species comprised the Phorusrhacidae family, some of which are estimated ...
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Rare 'Terror Bird' Fossil Found in Colombia Reveals the Enormous Size of a Prehistoric Predator
Nearly 20 years ago, while repairing a fence on his ranch in Colombia, fossil collector César Perdomo found the middle leg bone of a bird. The 12-million-year-old fossil, known as a tibiotarsus, ...
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 ...
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Ancient ‘terror birds’ were giant apex predators. Suspected new species is among the largest ever known
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