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Phorusrhacidae - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Phorusrhacids, colloquially known as terror birds, are an extinct clade of large carnivorous flightless birds that were the largest species of apex predators in South America during the Cenozoic era; their temporal range covers from 62 to 1.8 million years (Ma) ago.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phorusrhacidae
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Terror Bird (Phorusrhacos) - About
Phorusrhacos, also known as the Terror Bird, was as scary as its name is hard to pronounce.
http://dinosaurs.about.com/od/prehistoricbirds/p/phorusrhacos.htm
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BBC - Earth - The Reign of the Terror Birds
Meet the scariest birds you can imagine, scaled up to nightmarish proportions.
http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20150727-the-reign-of-the-terror-birds
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Terror Bird Vs. Modern Bird - Audubon
A recent discovery of a terror bird skeleton has us wondering: How do modern birds stack up?
https://www.audubon.org/news/terror-bird-vs-modern-bird
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Terror Birds of the Phorusrhacidae - Prehistoric-Wildlife
A look at the lifestyle, hunting and behaviour of the Terror Birds of the Phorusrhacidae.
http://www.prehistoric-wildlife.com/articles/terror-birds-of-the-phorusrhacidae.html
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Towering 'Terror Bird' Stalked Prey by Listening for Footsteps - Livescience
A nearly complete skeleton of a terror bird, a prehistoric carnivorous bird that lived in South America, is shedding light on the bird's anatomy.
http://www.livescience.com/50443-terror-bird-new-species.html
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Exceptionally Preserved Fossil Gives Voice to Ancient Terror Bird
A new species of South American fossil terror bird called Llallawavis scagliai or, 'Scaglia's Magnificent Bird' is shedding light on the diversity of the group and how these giant extinct predators interacted with their environment.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/04/150409182945.htm
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The Murderous 10-Foot-Tall Bird With a Beak Like a Pickax - Wired
These are the terror birds: scrappy, powerful critters that drove their enormous hooked beaks through small mammals as easily as that guy who put a pickax through my crazy uncle's skull in a bar fight that one time (he survived, and no, I'm not even kidding).
http://www.wired.com/2014/03/absurd-creature-week-terror-bird
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Meet The Terror Bird - Discovery
For tens of million of years, large, flightless predatory birds were top carnivores across South America.
http://www.discovery.com/tv-shows/other-shows/videos/mega-beasts-meet-the-terror-bird/
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New Species of 'Terror Bird' Discovered - AAAS
Famed for their large hooked beaks and a presumed taste for meat, flightless phorusrhacids, also known as "terror birds," were among South America's top predators before going extinct about 2.5 million years ago
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2015/04/new-species-terror-bird-discovered
