Terror Birds

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Terror Birds, more formally Phorusrhacids, were carnivorous flightless birds of the Cenozoic era. Numerous species existed throughout North and South America, and they were apex predators for roughly 25 million years until dying out 2.5 million years ago at the beginning of the Pleistocene.

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Tony Cox

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Terror Birds, more formally Phorusrhacids, were carnivorous flightless birds of the Cenozoic era. Numerous species existed throughout North and South America, and they were apex predators for roughly 25 million years until dying out 2.5 million years ago at the beginning of the Pleistocene.

Phorusrhacidae - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Phorusrhacids, colloquially known as terror birds, are an extinct clade of large carnivorous flightless birds that were the largest species of apex predators in South America during the Cenozoic era; their temporal range covers from 62 to 1.8 million years (Ma) ago.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phorusrhacidae
Terror Bird (Phorusrhacos) - About

Phorusrhacos, also known as the Terror Bird, was as scary as its name is hard to pronounce.
http://dinosaurs.about.com/od/prehistoricbirds/p/phorusrhacos.htm
BBC - Earth - The Reign of the Terror Birds

Meet the scariest birds you can imagine, scaled up to nightmarish proportions.
http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20150727-the-reign-of-the-terror-birds
Terror Bird Vs. Modern Bird - Audubon

A recent discovery of a terror bird skeleton has us wondering: How do modern birds stack up?
https://www.audubon.org/news/terror-bird-vs-modern-bird
Terror Birds of the Phorusrhacidae - Prehistoric-Wildlife

A look at the lifestyle, hunting and behaviour of the Terror Birds of the Phorusrhacidae.
http://www.prehistoric-wildlife.com/articles/terror-birds-of-the-phorusrhacidae.html
Towering 'Terror Bird' Stalked Prey by Listening for Footsteps - Livescience

A nearly complete skeleton of a terror bird, a prehistoric carnivorous bird that lived in South America, is shedding light on the bird's anatomy.
http://www.livescience.com/50443-terror-bird-new-species.html
Exceptionally Preserved Fossil Gives Voice to Ancient Terror Bird

A new species of South American fossil terror bird called Llallawavis scagliai or, 'Scaglia's Magnificent Bird' is shedding light on the diversity of the group and how these giant extinct predators interacted with their environment.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/04/150409182945.htm
The Murderous 10-Foot-Tall Bird With a Beak Like a Pickax - Wired

These are the terror birds: scrappy, powerful critters that drove their enormous hooked beaks through small mammals as easily as that guy who put a pickax through my crazy uncle's skull in a bar fight that one time (he survived, and no, I'm not even kidding).
http://www.wired.com/2014/03/absurd-creature-week-terror-bird
Meet The Terror Bird - Discovery

For tens of million of years, large, flightless predatory birds were top carnivores across South America.
http://www.discovery.com/tv-shows/other-shows/videos/mega-beasts-meet-the-terror-bird/
New Species of 'Terror Bird' Discovered - AAAS

Famed for their large hooked beaks and a presumed taste for meat, flightless phorusrhacids, also known as "terror birds," were among South America's top predators before going extinct about 2.5 million years ago
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2015/04/new-species-terror-bird-discovered

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Phorusrhacidae Temporal range: Middle Eocene – Late Pleistocene ^[1] ^[2] ~ 43–0.1 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N

Reconstructed skeleton of Titanis walleri, Florida Museum of Natural History
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Cariamiformes
Superfamily:	†Phorusrhacoidea Ameghino, 1889
Family:	†Phorusrhacidae Ameghino, 1889^[3]
Type species
†Phorusrhacos longissimus Ameghino, 1887
Subfamilies
†Phsyornithinae †Mesembriornithinae †Patagornithinae †Phorusrhacinae †Psilopterinae
Synonyms
Family synonymy Pelecyornidae Ameghino, 1891 Brontornithidae Moreno & Mercerat, 1891 Darwinornithidae Moreno & Mercerat, 1891 Stereornithidae Moreno & Mercerat, 1891 Patagornithidae Mercerat, 1897 Hermosiornidae Rovereto, 1914 Psilopteridae Dolgopol de Saez, 1927 Devincenziidae Kraglievich, 1932 Mesembriorniidae Kraglievich, 1932

Source : Wikipedia under CC-BY-SA license

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Phorusrhacidae - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Phorusrhacids, colloquially known as terror birds, are an extinct clade of large carnivorous flightless birds that were the largest species of apex predators in South America during the Cenozoic era; their temporal range covers from 62 to 1.8 million years (Ma) ago.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phorusrhacidae
Terror Bird (Phorusrhacos) - About

Phorusrhacos, also known as the Terror Bird, was as scary as its name is hard to pronounce.
http://dinosaurs.about.com/od/prehistoricbirds/p/phorusrhacos.htm
BBC - Earth - The Reign of the Terror Birds

Meet the scariest birds you can imagine, scaled up to nightmarish proportions.
http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20150727-the-reign-of-the-terror-birds
Terror Bird Vs. Modern Bird - Audubon

A recent discovery of a terror bird skeleton has us wondering: How do modern birds stack up?
https://www.audubon.org/news/terror-bird-vs-modern-bird
Terror Birds of the Phorusrhacidae - Prehistoric-Wildlife

A look at the lifestyle, hunting and behaviour of the Terror Birds of the Phorusrhacidae.
http://www.prehistoric-wildlife.com/articles/terror-birds-of-the-phorusrhacidae.html
Towering 'Terror Bird' Stalked Prey by Listening for Footsteps - Livescience

A nearly complete skeleton of a terror bird, a prehistoric carnivorous bird that lived in South America, is shedding light on the bird's anatomy.
http://www.livescience.com/50443-terror-bird-new-species.html
Exceptionally Preserved Fossil Gives Voice to Ancient Terror Bird

A new species of South American fossil terror bird called Llallawavis scagliai or, 'Scaglia's Magnificent Bird' is shedding light on the diversity of the group and how these giant extinct predators interacted with their environment.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/04/150409182945.htm
The Murderous 10-Foot-Tall Bird With a Beak Like a Pickax - Wired

These are the terror birds: scrappy, powerful critters that drove their enormous hooked beaks through small mammals as easily as that guy who put a pickax through my crazy uncle's skull in a bar fight that one time (he survived, and no, I'm not even kidding).
http://www.wired.com/2014/03/absurd-creature-week-terror-bird
Meet The Terror Bird - Discovery

For tens of million of years, large, flightless predatory birds were top carnivores across South America.
http://www.discovery.com/tv-shows/other-shows/videos/mega-beasts-meet-the-terror-bird/
New Species of 'Terror Bird' Discovered - AAAS

Famed for their large hooked beaks and a presumed taste for meat, flightless phorusrhacids, also known as "terror birds," were among South America's top predators before going extinct about 2.5 million years ago
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2015/04/new-species-terror-bird-discovered

Phorusrhacidae Temporal range: Middle Eocene – Late Pleistocene ^[1] ^[2] ~ 43–0.1 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N

Reconstructed skeleton of Titanis walleri, Florida Museum of Natural History
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Cariamiformes
Superfamily:	†Phorusrhacoidea Ameghino, 1889
Family:	†Phorusrhacidae Ameghino, 1889^[3]
Type species
†Phorusrhacos longissimus Ameghino, 1887
Subfamilies
†Phsyornithinae †Mesembriornithinae †Patagornithinae †Phorusrhacinae †Psilopterinae
Synonyms
Family synonymy Pelecyornidae Ameghino, 1891 Brontornithidae Moreno & Mercerat, 1891 Darwinornithidae Moreno & Mercerat, 1891 Stereornithidae Moreno & Mercerat, 1891 Patagornithidae Mercerat, 1897 Hermosiornidae Rovereto, 1914 Psilopteridae Dolgopol de Saez, 1927 Devincenziidae Kraglievich, 1932 Mesembriorniidae Kraglievich, 1932

Source : Wikipedia under CC-BY-SA license

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Terror Birds

Terror Birds, more formally Phorusrhacids, were carnivorous flightless birds of the Cenozoic era. Numerous species existed throughout North and South America, and they were apex predators for roughly 25 million years until dying out 2.5 million years ago at the beginning of the Pleistocene.

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