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 ...
A handful of bite marks on a fossil tens of millions of years old speaks to an ancient tussle between two terrifying apex predators. Reading time 2 minutes Sometime between 16 and 11.6 million years ...
No other animal is as inexorably linked with extinction as the dodo, an odd-looking flightless bird that lived on the island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean until the late 17th century. The arrival ...
The mangled leg of a prehistoric predator suggests it may have been killed by an even bigger beast 13 million years ago, boffins believe. Terror birds — a ...