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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 ...

The identification of part of the fossilized remains of a so-called "terror bird" species in South America has given ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Getty Images Nearly 12 million years ago, the largest ...

The heavy-beaked predators called terror birds sat at the top of the food chain for much of the past 65 million years. Now scientists have identified a fossil from ...

This fragment of a terror bird’s left tibiotarsus, a lower leg bone in birds equivalent to that of a human tibia or shin bone, dates to around 12 million years ago ...

The fossil of a giant carnivorous bird has been found in Patagonia, marking the largest-known avian skull to have been found. The fearsome fossil of a 10-foot-tall ...

(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 ...

Nearly 12 million years ago, the largest "terror bird" ever discovered was attacked and killed by a massive caiman, a 3D analysis of its fossilized leg suggests ...