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For those unaware but have heard about them, there are two supercontinents, one covering the north on our world, the other comprising the southern continents. Gondwana is the southern of ...

Newly analysed fossil came from what could be the biggest-known member of a family of apex avian predators.

The 12-million-year-old fossil, known as a tibiotarsus, belonged to a now-extinct creature in the Phorusrhacidae family, which was made up of mostly flightless, giant, meat-eating birds known ...

Reference: “A gigantic new terror bird (Cariamiformes, Phorusrhacidae) from Middle Miocene tropical environments of La Venta in northern South America” by Federico J. Degrange, Siobhan B. Cooke, Luis ...

Analysis of a fossilized leg bone discovered two decades ago has revealed it to be the lower leg bone of a Phorusrhacidae, an ancient bird that researchers believe was nearly ten feet tall. This ...

At least 20 species comprised the Phorusrhacidae family, some of which are estimated to have weighed as much as 770 lbs.

This brought with it the arrival of new mammalian predators, such as saber-toothed cats and canids, which directly competed with the Phorusrhacidae. Although some smaller species persisted until just ...

The birds, the last two remaining examples from a population of Phorusrhacidae that have somehow survived, were discovered on a remote South American island and transported to the Texas ranch by the ...

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