Millions of years ago, apex predators in the Phorusrhacidae family lived up to their more common name—terror birds. The mostly flightless, meat-eating dinosaur ...

At least 20 species comprised the Phorusrhacidae family, some of which are estimated to have weighed as much as 770 lbs.

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The timeframe precedes the peak period of the Phorusrhacidae, the official name given to 17 species of birds characterized by dagger-like beaks. Can experts classify the predatory bird of Antarctica ...

The Phorusrhacidae appeared about 62 million years ago, shortly after the extinction of non-avian dinosaurs, and throughout their long evolutionary history, they developed an impressive diversity of ...

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Honorable mentions went to: Beverly Weyland of Enon Valley, “Mid Day Musings”; Marge Gardner of Baden, “Snow on the Hill'; and Ian Quetot of New Waterford, Ohio, “Phorusrhacidae.” ...

The information from the scan was then modelled in 3D, as was data from an eagle and the closest thing to a relative of Phorusrhacidae that we have: the seriema. They modeled how well the birds ...

Phorusrhacidae was a group of large, flightless, carnivorous birds that roamed Earth for about 60 million years, beginning in the early Cretaceous Period.

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