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Phorusrhacids, colloquially known as terror birds, are an extinct family of large carnivorous, mostly flightless birds that were among the largest apex predators in South America during the Cenozoic era; their conventionally accepted temporal range covers from 53 to 0.1 million years ago, and perhaps even up to 21,600 ± 1,000 years ago.
Los fororrácidos [2] o forusrácidos [3] (Phorusrhacidae) es una familia extinta de aves cariamiformes conocidas también como aves del terror, porque sus especies más grandes eran superdepredadores en las regiones que habitaron, principalmente en América del Sur.
31 de ene. de 2019 · Learn about the Terror Bird, a giant flightless prehistoric bird that lived in South America and hunted with its clawed wings and crushing beak. Find out its scientific name, size, diet, and extinction date.
Phorusrhacos (/ ˌ f ɔː r ə s ˈ r ɑː k ɒ s / FOR-əs-RAH-koss) is an extinct genus of giant flightless terror birds that inhabited South America during the Miocene epoch. Phorusrhacos was one of the dominant land predators in South America at the time it existed. [1]
12 de oct. de 2023 · Learn how terror birds, flightless carnivorous birds that roamed South America, hunted with their sharp claws and hooked beaks. See the first definitive terror bird footprints, discovered in Argentina, and how they resemble dinosaur tracks.
Now paleontologists have unearthed one of the most complete fossils of a phorusrhacid to date. The skeleton of the new species, dubbed Llallawavis scagliai, is approximately 95% complete, giving scientists the ability to study a terror bird's anatomy in unprecedented detail.
7 de sept. de 2011 · A nearly-complete right femur from western Algeria suggests a new species of terror bird, a flightless, hatchet-headed avian that lived in prehistoric South America. The fossil challenges the idea that terror birds were isolated in South America and raises questions about their evolution and dispersal.
