NPR => Huge ‘Terror Bird’ Fossil Discovered in Patagonia
Scientists have discovered a skull belonging to a hook-beaked bird that ruled the grasslands of South America. Scientists are calling the bird a “terror bird.â€
The bird didn’t fly because it didn’t have to. Instead, it put its biological resources into growing bigger and faster than anything else on the continent. It was the largest bird ever and the top predator in South America millions of years ago.
South America must have been a fun place back in the Pleistocene.
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