Terror bird

All these giant prehistoric animals have two things in common: they were giant and they are extinct. History teaches us that size doesn’t ensure survival.

Terror Bird 😱😱 by atrox1 on DeviantART Phorusrhacids, colloquially known as terror birds, are an extinct clade of large carnivorous…

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Terror Birds Evolution

The Terror Birds are birds that appeared in the 2008 film, 10,000 B.C. It appears to be just like an ordinary terror bird, with feather crests located on the top of its head, light brownish grey necks, sharp beaks, three fingers, dark brown feathers, and a body shape similar to a modern seriema. They hunt in packs to chase their prey and ultimately kill it. They were only found in South America(with the only exception being Titanis) and were never native to the Old World, they also became…

The six-million-year-old tracks of a giant carnivorous bird show that this hunter was not so different from its earlier dinosaur relatives.

Phorusrhacids or terror birds were giant flightless aves that ate meat, living after the dinosaurs (62-2 million years ago). They were the top predators in South America. When it collided with North America some migrated up into this new continent. The majority of terror birds became extinct due to the introduction of northern predators like the sabre toothed cats and wolves, however they were still efficient predators. They were built for speed and agility, growing to 3 meters in height…

Art illustration - Prehistoric Birds - Kelenken guillermoi: it is an extinct species of bird cariamiforme of Phorusrhacidae family or terror birds. It is the largest known predatory bird history. He lived in the Miocene, about 15 million years ago. Measured more than three meters high, its head (including peak) came to be more than 70 cm long, with the bird with the largest known skull, weighing up to 160 kilograms