A team of researchers analyzed a 12-million-year-old fossilized bone discovered in Colombia's fossiliferous Tatacoa Desert ...
It’s time to meet the biggest ghost bird in South America. These birds look pretty funky. They stand between 48 to 60 centimeters tall (18.9 to 23.6 inches) with a 70 to 80 centimeter wingspan ...
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While past terror bird fossils placed the meat-eating birds at 3 to 9 feet tall, new findings suggest that some were even ...
The H5N1 strain of avian flu is now passing easily among South America's elephant seals and drastically cutting herd ...
The fossilized leg bone of a giant “terror bird” discovered in Colombia provides new insights into ancient South American ecosystems, suggesting the bird was a major predator in a once-lush region ...
Researchers including a Johns Hopkins University evolutionary biologist report they have analyzed a fossil of an extinct ...
Millions of years ago, long-legged, big-beaked, meat-eating “terror birds” stalked the Americas. The imposing creatures ruled the roost as top predators of their ...
Lab investigations determined that the avian flu virus in South America has already evolved into distinct classes that affect either birds or mammals, a step the research team called "unprecedented." ...