Analyzing a leg bone from a fossil site in Colombia, scientists have identified a massive “terror bird” that lived about 12 million years ago.

In Colombia, a fossil-collecting rancher has found a giant, flightless killer from 13 million years ago — and a missing link to the region’s evolutionary history.

Ancient ‘terror birds’ were giant apex predators. Suspected new species is among the largest ever known ...

They likely lived spread out, as opposed to their more populous prey, which could help explain why they haven't been found in Colombia before, the researchers said.

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Researchers described the fossil, which was found at the La Venta formation in the Tatacoa Desert of Colombia, in a study published Monday (Nov. 4) in the journal Papers in Palaeontology.. The ...

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A fossil fragment indicates that the ancient predator was 20% more massive.

The suspected new species was slightly taller than a terror bird from what’s now Brazil called Paraphysornis brasiliensis, which stood nearly 8 feet (2.4 meters) tall.

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