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Phorusrhacids,
colloquially known as
terror birds, are an
extinct family of
large carnivorous flightless birds that were
among the
largest apex predators...
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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
mythological Gr**** Titans) is a
genus of
phorusrhacid ("terror birds", a
group originating in
South America), an
extinct family...
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during Late
Oligocene or
Early Miocene epochs.
Although not the
tallest phorusrhacid,
Paraphysornis measured up to 1.4
metres (4 ft 7 in) tall at the hips...
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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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weighed up to 350
kilograms (770 lb),
making it one of the
largest phorusrhacids and
carnivorous birds known. The
generic name
Devincenzia comes from...
- 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...
- his
colleagues under the name of Eleutherornis. It is a medium-sized
phorusrhacid, with a
height of
about 1.50
meters that
shows a
combination of basal...
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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...
- (131, 267).
Academic Press, New York. Mayr,
Gerald (2005). ""Old
World phorusrhacids" (Aves, Phorusrhacidae): a new look at
Strigogyps ("Aenigmavis") sapea...
