A handful of bite marks on a fossil tens of millions of years old speaks to an ancient tussle between two terrifying apex predators. reading time 2 minutes Sometime between 16 and 11.6 million years ...

This fragment of a terror bird’s left tibiotarsus, a lower leg bone in birds equivalent to that of a human tibia or shin bone, dates to around 12 million years ago ...

A fossil discovery in Colombia is reshaping how scientists view the prehistoric pecking order. Researchers examining a 13-million-year-old bone from a so-called "terror bird"—a flightless creature ...

South America is a continent of breathtaking contrasts, where towering mountains meet dense rainforests, and arid deserts give way to icy fjords. In this immersive visual journey, we travel from the ...

In the forests of the eastern Andes, a gray bird with black “goggles” flies through the trees. Ani Fsc via Unsplash When a bird quickly flies across your view, it can be nearly impossible to look at ...

SAO PAULO, March 13(Reuters) - The deadly H5N1 bird flu virus has spread more aggressively than ever before in wild birds and marine mammals since arriving in South America in 2022, raising the risk ...