The Rise & Fall of the Terror Birds.

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  • Author(s): Hofer, Charles C. (AUTHOR)
  • Source:
    Muse. Mar2020, Vol. 24 Issue 3, p30-33. 4p. 2 Color Photographs, 1 Map.
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    • Subject Terms:
      BIRDS; PLIOCENE Epoch; BIRD watching; FOSSIL birds
    • Abstract:
      Terror birds (family Phorusrhachidae) were gigantic, flightless birds that rose to the top of the food chain after the Cretaceous Period came to a close. Like most of today's plants and animals, the story of the terror birds begins in the Cretaceous Period. "Just like mammals, some bird species survived the event", says Richard Hulbert with the Florida Museum of Natural History. These new "terror birds" assumed the therapod's ecological niche as South America's dominant ground-dwelling carnivore. [Extracted from the article]
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