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Ripped straight from King Kong, creatures known as “terror birds” stalked South America millions of years ago, brandishing impressively huge beaks. New research ...
Journal of Paleontology, Vol. 93, No. 6 (NOVEMBER 2019), pp. 1221-1233 (13 pages) The giant carnivorous phorusrhacid bird Phorusrhacos longissimus (Aves, Cariamiformes) was first described in 1887 by ...
In the vast plains of ancient South America, millions of years ago, a menacing shadow loomed over the grasslands. It wasn’t a dinosaur or a mammalian predator, but a colossal bird that dominated the ...
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Front Cover; Paleobiology of Giant Flightless Birds; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; 1. General Introduction; 1.1. Bird evolution; 1.2. Extant large ...
A new large Cathartidae from the quaternary of Argentina, with a review of the fossil record of condors in South America / Federico L. Angolin, Federico Brissón Egli, Esteban Soibelzon, Sergio F.
Prehistoric Earth was filled with all kinds of impressively scary animals. But one category of avians, an extinct clade called Phorusrhacidae, was so fierce that they ...
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