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 ...

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 ...

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When a large asteroid hit Earth 66 million years ago, not all the dinosaurs went extinct. Birds, feathered dinosaurs that have thrived since the Jurassic, survived—and some of these birds were more ...

True to their nickname, terror birds (Phorusrhacidae) are known as one of the largest and also the most fearsome birds to ever live. These were flightless birds with ...

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