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12 Million-Year-Old Fossil Reveals What May Be The Largest Terror Bird To Have Ever Lived
A newly discovered leg bone from Columbia is likely to be from the largest member of the Phorusrhacid family – appropriately known as "terror birds" – we have yet ...
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Terror birds bone (IMAGE)
The end of a terror bird’s left tibiotarsus, a lower leg bone in birds equivalent to that of a human tibia or shin bone, dates back to the Miocene epoch around 12 ...
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Ancient ‘terror birds’ were giant apex predators. Suspected new species is among the largest ever known
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