Twelve million years ago, a huge flightless predator known as a “terror bird” sprinted across tropical floodplains in what is ...

(CNN) — Millions of years ago, long-legged, big-beaked, meat-eating “terror birds” stalked the Americas. The imposing creatures ruled the roost as top predators ...

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 fossil discovery in Colombia is reshaping how scientists view the prehistoric pecking order. Researchers examining a 13-million-year-old bone from a so-called "terror bird"—a flightless creature ...

12 million years ago, a fearsome predator roamed the ancient landscapes of South America. It was a giant, flightless bird popularly known as a “terror bird.” And ...

A handful of bite marks on a fossil tens of millions of years old speaks to an ancient tussle between two terrifying apex predators. reading time 2 minutes Sometime between 16 and 11.6 million years ...

About 13 million years ago in a vast South American wetland, colossal predators clashed. The fossilised bone from an enormous flightless bird found in Colombia shows tooth marks made by a giant caiman ...

“Terror birds” were giant, flightless, meat-eating creatures that roamed what is now South America for millions of years. As their threatening name suggests ...

15:32, Thu, Jul 24, 2025 Updated: 15:42, Thu, Jul 24, 2025 Palaeontologists are trying to uncover the mystery behind tooth marks left in the bones of a terror bird 13 ...

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