A fossil discovery in Colombia is reshaping how scientists view the prehistoric pecking order. Researchers examining a 13-million-year-old bone from a so-called "terror bird"—a flightless creature ...

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 ...

Twelve million years ago, a huge flightless predator known as a “terror bird” sprinted across tropical floodplains in what is ...

About 13 million years ago in a vast South American wetland, colossal predators clashed. The fossilised bone from an enormous flightless bird found in Colombia shows tooth marks made by a giant caiman ...

For the new study, the researchers evaluated the bite mark by creating detailed 3D images of the fossil. The bone marks had no signs of healing, while the size and shape of the marks were consistent ...

“Terror birds” were giant, flightless, meat-eating creatures that roamed what is now South America for millions of years. As their threatening name suggests ...

One day in the Middle Miocene epoch, some 11 million to 16 million years ago, a roughly 4.8-metre-long caiman ate a terror bird 1. Andres Link at the University of ...