They also estimated the bird’s weight to be 156 kilograms, about that of a giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca), which would ...
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Rare 'Terror Bird' Fossil Found in Colombia Reveals the Enormous Size of a Prehistoric PredatorNearly 20 years ago, while repairing a fence on his ranch in Colombia, fossil collector César Perdomo found the middle leg ...
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Ancient ‘terror birds’ were giant apex predators. Suspected new species is among the largest ever knownAnalyzing a leg bone from a fossil site in Colombia, scientists have identified a massive “terror bird” that lived about 12 ...
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A giant crocodilian killed the largest 'terror bird' ever found, 12 million years agoNearly 12 million years ago, the largest "terror bird" ever discovered was attacked and killed by a massive caiman, a 3D ...
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 ...
The end of a terror bird’s left tibiotarsus, a lower leg bone in birds equivalent to that of a human tibia or shin bone, dates back to the Miocene epoch around 12 ...
A FLESH-EATING bird has been uncovered after nearly 12 million years in a Colombian desert. Scientists revealed this extinct “Terror Bird” was the largest of its ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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