The Most Terrifying Bird on Earth
Photo via Amazing Australia Queensland, Australia. Philip Mclean, a 16 year-old boy, and his brother, three years his junior, encounter a cassowary. Despite the s Photo: Photo via Amazing Australia Queensland, Australia. Jekyll and Hyde? Photo: Photo by Ronnie23 Philip Mclean’s death took place in 1926, but attacks on humans by the cassowary – viewed by many as the most dangerous bird alive – are not uncommon. Keep clear of the claw: At 12 cm long, it can do serious damage Photo: Photo by Mrs King The southern cassowary is one of the largest birds on the planet – only its relatives the emu and the ostrich are bigger – the female reaching almost 2 metres tall and weighing 130 pounds. Cassowary comin’ atcha: It is a fast runner, able to reach 50 km/h Photo: Photo by Bjørn Christian Tørrissen Hello beautiful: The coarse head feathers are brilliant, perhaps as a warning Photo: Photo by Paul IJsendoorn Here today, gone tomorrow: the cassowary is listed as vulnerable by the IUCN Photo: Photo by Elfike
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Terror Bird Fought Like Muhammad Ali
Analysis of a terror bird's predatory behavior reveals this animal knew how to fight. At least one of these now-extinct, large birds, Andalgalornis, fought like boxer Muhammad Ali. Like Ali, they believe the bird was an agile and fast fighter that employed an "attack-and-retreat" strategy. At 90 pounds, the ancient terror bird Andalgalornis may not have been comparable to a human heavyweight. The study, published in the latest PLoS ONE journal, presents the first detailed look at the predatory style of terror birds, now-extinct flightless birds known for their unusually large, fearsome heads and imposing sizes. CT scans revealed this bird's skull was strong and rigid in the vertical and fore-aft directions, but was relatively weak from side to side. "That side-to-side weakness meant that the bird couldn't grapple with struggling prey like a Joe Frazier kind of slugger without risking fracturing the beak.
Law Of The Wild :: SeenAndShared.com :: Best Quality!
The Law Of The Wild says "Kill ONLY when you are hungry." Photographer Michel Denis-Huot, who captured these amazing pictures on safari in Kenya's Masai Mara in October last year, said he was astounded by what he saw: *UPDATE: While these pictures are indeed real, the outcome after the encounter below did not fare well for the young deer.
Giant Terror Birds Used Stabbing Beaks to Kill Prey | Wired Science
When South America was still an isolated continent, terror birds were the creatures you didn’t want to mess with. Flightless, standing up to seven feet tall, and with giant, stabbing beaks, these birds killed their prey with fierce, axe-like motions. Now scientists have used CT scans and computer modeling to reconstruct the feeding behavior and interior skull anatomy of one of 18 known species of terror bird, Andalgalornis steulleti, which lived in northwest Argentina until about six million years ago. A. steulleti was a mid-sized terror bird, standing 4.5 feet tall and weighing about 90 pounds. “CT scanning extinct animals is exciting because you never really know what you’ll find inside,” said paleontologist Lawrence Witmer of Ohio University, co-author of the study published in PLoS ONE August 18. Terror birds, known scientifically as phorusrhacids, evolved in isolation in South America about 60 million years ago. See Also:
How the fearsome 'terror bird' dealt with its victims six million years ago
How the fearsome 'terror bird' dealt with its victims six million years ago A fossil skull of the terror bird Andalgalornis, compared with the skull of a modern-day golden eagle and a human skull for scale. Andalgalornis was an extinct, 1.4 metre-tall flightless predatory bird found as 6-million-year-old fossils in northwestern Argentina. How the fearsome 'terror bird' dealt with its victims six million years ago - The Irish Times - Thu, Aug 19, 2010 Scientists have worked out how the wonderfully named ‘terror bird’, which died out some two million years ago, caught and chopped up its prey IT FLOATED like a butterfly and stung like a bee but it was no boxer. Scientists have worked out how the wonderfully named “terror bird” caught and chopped up its prey. This flightless bird, of the Phorusrachid family, ranged across what is now North and South America millions of years ago. It is likely that humans would have been part of its menu plan had we existed at the time.
