Analyzing a leg bone from a fossil site in Colombia, scientists have identified a massive “terror bird” that lived about 12 ...

Nearly 20 years ago, while repairing a fence on his ranch in Colombia, fossil collector César Perdomo found the middle leg ...

Nearly 12 million years ago, the largest "terror bird" ever discovered was attacked and killed by a massive caiman, a 3D analysis of its fossilized leg suggests ...

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 ...

A 12-million-year-old fossil of a prehistoric "terror bird" discovered in South America might represent the largest known member of its kind found to date, a study ...

Phorusrhacid birds, better known as "terror birds," were some of the most impressive predators to ever walk the Earth.

Terror birds were apex predators some 12 million years ago in South America. A newly published discovery could be the largest ...

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 ...

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 fossilized leg bone of a giant “terror bird” discovered in Colombia provides new insights into ancient South American ecosystems, suggesting the bird was a major predator in a once-lush region ...

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 ...