The identification of part of the fossilized remains of a so-called "terror bird" species in South America has given researchers new insight into the apex predators ...

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 ...

Standing around 10 feet tall, weighing around 220 pounds and with an axe-like beak capable of delivering devastating strikes, the terror bird would have proved a ...

Scientists have unearthed the fossilized leg bone of a colossal phorusrhacid, commonly known as a “terror bird,” dating back 12 million years in Colombia’s ...

One day in the Middle Miocene epoch, some 11 million to 16 million years ago, a roughly 4.8-metre-long caiman ate a terror bird 1. Andres Link at the University of ...