Absurd Creature of the Week: The Murderous 10-Foot-Tall Bird With a Beak Like a Pickax
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These are the terror birds: scrappy, powerful critters that drove their enormous hooked beaks through small mammals as easily…
These are the terror birds: scrappy, powerful critters that drove their enormous hooked beaks through small mammals as easily…
The behaviour of long-extinct animals remains an area of major public and scientific interest – the great perennial problem…
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Suppose you're interested in the anatomy and biology of ground hornbills. Now suppose that you get the chance to make physical…
Suppose you’re interested in the anatomy and biology of ground hornbills. Now suppose that you get the chance to make physical…
It has been pretty incredible to see the rise of PLoS ONE as a major outlet for articles on paleontology, and it has been…
W połowie sierpnia świat okrążyła lotem błyskawicy wieść o potwornym wielkim ptaku. Planowałem o tym wspomnieć wcześniej, ale…
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Phorusrhacids weren’t your mama’s parakeet. Known as “terror birds,” a recent biomechanical analysis of a fossilized…
Phorusrhacids weren’t your mama’s parakeet. Known as “terror birds,” a recent biomechanical analysis of a fossilized…
Six million years ago, the Andalgalornis steulleti or “Terror Bird” roamed South America in search of prey. The bird was…
Six million years ago, Argentina was ruled by ‘terror birds’. These giant flightless hunters, standing one to three metres tall…