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Phorusrhacids,
colloquially known as
terror birds, are an
extinct family of
large carnivorous,
mostly flightless birds that were
among the
largest apex...
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Kelenken is a
genus of
phorusrhacid ("terror bird"), an
extinct group of large,
predatory birds,
which lived in what is now
Argentina in the
middle Miocene...
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Titanis (meaning "Titan" for the
Titans of Gr**** mythology) is a
genus of
phorusrhacid ("terror birds", a
group originating in
South America), an
extinct family...
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weighed up to 350
kilograms (770 lb),
making it one of the
largest phorusrhacids and
carnivorous birds known. The
generic name
Devincenzia comes from...
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higher beak, the most m****ive in
proportion to body size of all
phorusrhacids.
Phorusrhacids are
thought to have been
ground predators or scavengers, and...
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unnamed species may have been
close to the
ancestry of both
cariamids and
phorusrhacids. However, a
subsequent study published by West et al. (2019) reinterpreted...
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phorusrhacid ("terror bird") from the
Middle Oligocene to
possibly the Late
Pleistocene of
Argentina and Uruguay.
Compared to
other phorusrhacids, members...
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authors alternatively considering it to be a cariamiform,
typically a
phorusrhacid (terror bird) or an anserimorph. The
first fossils of
Brontornis burmeisteri...
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Washington W.; Rinderknecht, Andrés (May 2010). "The
youngest record of
phorusrhacid birds (Aves, Phorusrhacidae) from the late
Pleistocene of Uruguay". Neues...
- from
Pliocene Argentina. Its
fossil is the most
complete fossil of a
phorusrhacid (or "terror bird") yet found. The fossil,
discovered in 2010 in sediment...
