In Colombia, a fossil-collecting rancher has found a giant, flightless killer from 13 million years ago — and a missing link ...

A massive terror bird fossil, the largest of its kind, was recently uncovered in Colombia’s desert—shedding light on ancient ecosystems.

Terror birds were apex predators some 12 million years ago in South America. A newly published discovery could be the largest ...

Researchers including a Johns Hopkins University evolutionary biologist report they have analyzed a fossil of an extinct ...

The fossilized leg bone of a giant “terror bird” discovered in Colombia provides new insights into ancient South American ecosystems, suggesting the bird was a major predator in a once-lush region ...

A Colombian rancher has discovered a fossilized bone that points to the existence of a giant terror bird species. The fossil, ...

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The desert landscape is the ancestral land of the ... Last week, tribal leaders and state officials traveled to Colombia to address the United Nations’ global biodiversity conference.

The region where the bone was found is known as La Venta, a fossil bed that’s part of the Tatacoa Desert in Colombia. It was previously thought that La Venta was a tropical ecosystem ...

Our planet faces a devastating loss of nature. Over a million plant and animal species are on the brink of extinction, and ...