Phorusrhacids: Flightless terror birds stalked Antarctica after the dinosaurs’ demise

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Phorusrhacids: Flightless ******* birds stalked Antarctica after the dinosaurs’ demise

Illustration of a ******* bird and other animals that may have lived in what is now Antarctica at the same time

C. Acosta Hospitaleche & W. Jones/Palaeontological Association 2024

A 2-metre-tall flightless bird may have been the top predator in what is now Antarctica 50 million years ago.

Two 8-centimetre fossil claws found on Seymour Island, near the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula, belonged to a large family of similar birds that palaeontologists call ******* birds, according to an analysis by

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