Long before big cats, terror birds reigned as apex predators. Here’s how these flightless birds hunted, and why they went ...

(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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

Teeth marks seen on the leg bone of a so-called ‘terror bird’, which were predators 13 million years ago, suggest it may have been killed by an even bigger ...

Researchers including a Johns Hopkins University evolutionary biologist report they have analyzed a fossil of an extinct giant meat-eating bird—which they say could be the largest known member of its ...

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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 ...

“Terror birds” were giant, flightless, meat-eating creatures that roamed what is now South America for millions of years. As their threatening name suggests ...

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