Giant Terror Birds Used Stabbing Beaks to Kill Prey

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“It would have used a repeated, rapid strike – a downward strike, using the neck muscles to drive that big spike on the beak into the prey and then pull back and rip,” explained Dr Wroe.

“It was really badly adapted for grabbing an object and shaking it.”

via BBC News – ‘Terror bird’ was prize fighter.

Update – an infographic on Terror Bird (d)evolution:

Via @microecos.

1 thought on “Giant Terror Birds Used Stabbing Beaks to Kill Prey”

  1. Thats just scary..I rather be killed bye a tiger at least they have a decency of ripping your throat out first…With that sad..thanks for sharing this!

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