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- Phorusrhacids, colloquially known as terror birds, are an extinct family of large carnivorous, mostly flightless birds that were among the largest apex...
- 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...
- Titanis (meaning "Titan" for the Titans of Gr**** mythology) is a genus of phorusrhacid ("terror birds", a group originating in South America), an extinct family...
- weighed up to 350 kilograms (770 lb), making it one of the largest phorusrhacids and carnivorous birds known. The generic name Devincenzia comes from...
- Patagorhacos is an extinct genus of medium-sized phorusrhacid from the early Miocene of Patagonia. Currently only the single species Patagorhacos terrificus...
- authors alternatively considering it to be a cariamiform, typically a phorusrhacid (terror bird) or an anserimorph. The first fossils of Brontornis burmeisteri...
- 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...
- unnamed species may have been close to the ancestry of both cariamids and phorusrhacids. However, a subsequent study published by West et al. (2019) reinterpreted...
- 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...
- of phorusrhacid ("terror bird") from the Middle Oligocene to possibly the Late Pleistocene of Argentina and Uruguay. Compared to other phorusrhacids, members...