Okay, but how terrifying were terror birds?
E43. For millions of years, South America’s top predators weren’t cats or bears. They were birds, some taller than a person. Paleontologist Dr. Federico "Dino" Degrange of the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba joins us to ask whether terror birds really earned their name.
In this episode, you'll hear about:
The surprising weapon a terror bird actually used to bring down its prey
What left bite marks on one of the biggest terror birds ever found
Why the last terror bird standing was one of the smallest
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