Terror bird

Extinct Phorusrhacos longissimus was a giant flightless terror bird that lived in Miocene Patagonia. It stood about 8 ft tall and weighed approximately 290 lbs. It’s large hook-tipped beak and strong claws indicate they were carnivorous. (by Antarctic Spring)

Description Here's an illustration I did of the giant phorusrhacid Kelenken guillermoi. I limited myself to a day for this piece, which I find helps me to improve my workflow as I can't get bogged down on little details. Hope youse all enjoy!

“Kelenken guillermoi, the largest of the known Terror Birds. Another commission for @KaproDragon, this time with massive help from Phorusrhacid connoisseur @randompaleonerd”

Terror Bird 😱😱 by atrox1 on DeviantART Phorusrhacids, colloquially known as terror birds, are an extinct clade of large carnivorous…

The six-million-year-old tracks of a giant carnivorous bird show that this hunter was not so different from its earlier dinosaur relatives.

All these giant prehistoric animals have two things in common: they were giant and they are extinct. History teaches us that size doesn’t ensure survival.

Terror Birds were large, carnivorous, flightless birds from between the Early Pliocene and Early Pleistocene epochs of the Cenozoic era. Terror Birds possessed heavily-built bodies - with a long, curved neck, which held a large head equipped with a giant, hooked beak, and small wings which were useless for flight. They also possessed very large legs, which allowed them to run at incredible speeds and quickly chase down extremely fast prey; Titanis walleri could sprint at 65 km/h, and outrun…

Phorusrhacids, known as terror birds, are a group of extinct carnivorous flightless birds in South America during the Cenozoic era, 62 to 1.8 mya. Their long legs enabled them to run at high speed and long necks absorbed the impact made with powerful curved beaks. (Saul Marchese / ArtStation)

Andalgalornis steulleti is a species of terror bird that lived in Argentina from the Late Miocene epoch. Although only known from some incomplete skeletons, the bones of Andalgalornis are at least complete enough to serve as the basis of size estimates, revealing a height of 1.4 meters (4.6 feet) and a weight of around 45 kilograms (100 lbs) based off of the bones of other phorusrhacids. This makes Andalgalornis particularly small among its kind, with a proportionally larger beak in…