A tropical home A curator at the Museo La Tormenta in Colombia discovered the leg bone in the Tatacoa Desert nearly two decades ago, but paleontologists were uncertain about what type of animal to ...

(CN) — Nearly 20 years ago, fossil collector César Perdomo was prospecting in northern Colombia’s arid Tatacoa Desert when he unearthed a massive bone unlike anything he’d seen before. It looked to be ...

Ancient ‘terror birds’ were giant apex predators. Suspected new species is among the largest ever known Mindy Weisberger, CNN 8 November 2024 at 7:45 pm·5-min read ...

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

Other neighbors of terror birds would have included armadillo relatives called glyptodonts, a variety of perching and wading birds, and large crocodilians, according to the study.

Bone fragments revealed the recently discovered Phorusrhacid was around 30% larger than other birds of its kind. Palaeontologist Siobhán Cooke shared how the bird’s huge beak and skull made it ...

According to Dr. Herculano Alvarenga, an expert on Terror Birds from the Natural History Museum of Taubaté, Brazil, The Phorusrhacidae were a fascinating evolutionary experiment. They represent a ...

Teeth marks made on the leg bone of a large avian reptile known as a terror bird 13 million years ago suggest an even bigger predator may have killed it, scientists say. Terror birds were top ...

“A giant bird that ate meat on the landscape — that's fundamentally cool," says author Siobhán Cooke, who studies mammalian anatomy and evolution at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. “And it's so ...

Skull: Evidence of the bird that stalked the Earth 3.5 million years ago (Image: National Pictures) This allowed palaeontologists to build up an unprecedented understanding of the sensory ...