terror birds
Giant flightless hunters
Terror birds were large, flightless predatory birds that dominated South America for millions of years after the dinosaurs died out.
Standing up to ten feet tall with massive hooked beaks, they were apex predators until the land bridge to North America formed.
The name evokes their fearsome appearance and hunting prowess.
Present geological era
- PaleoceneEarliest Cenozoic epoch
- MiocenePre-Pliocene geological epoch
- PlioceneLate Neogene epoch
- PleistoceneAncient glacial geological period
megafauna · fossils · paleontology · South America · fossil record · extinction · paleobiology · paleoecology
Unpreyed-upon dominant hunter
- carnivoreCreature eating only animals
- beakHorny avian mouthpart
- skullHead's bone casing
- preyAnimal being hunted
hunter · ambush · pursuit · kill · meat-eater · claws · talons · ferocity
Having no wings
- groundedStable and realistic
- runningSwift foot travel
- ground-dwellingLiving on earth's surface
- flightlessnessInability to fly
Cenozoic
Present geological era
Pleistocene · megafauna · fossils · paleontology · South America · fossil record · extinction · paleobiology · paleoecology · evolution
apex predator
Unpreyed-upon dominant hunter
prey · hunter · ambush · pursuit · kill · meat-eater · claws · talons · ferocity · striking
wingless
Having no wings
- groundedStable and realistic
- runningSwift foot travel
- ground-dwellingLiving on earth's surface
- Extinct Animalsdinosaur, dinosaurs, tyrannosaurus, dodo, mammoth
- fossilsdinosaur bones, ammonite, amber, ammonites, fossils
- prehistoric lifedinosaur, dinosaurs, triceratops, Velociraptor, velociraptor
- Paleogene lifeearly primates, Titanoboa
- CenozoicPaleocene, Miocene, Pliocene, Pleistocene, Holocene
- Extinct Birdsdodo, moa, great auk, passenger pigeon, oo
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