Height: 3 m Weight: 200 kg Time: 27 million years ago to 150 million years ago Location: South America Terror birds living in the years 2700 to 150 million years ago, the now all extinct. It may have originated in Eurasia, the Americas came after the top of the food chain because there is no living rival, once evolution was very great, until a more ferocious cats gradually fading into the Americas. Feature 3 meters tall terror birds, weighing 200 kilograms, is a bird can not fly, the now extinct giant bird family known as terror birds. They like meat hunting instinct that can swallow a dog, but also has amazing running speed, even in the world today run the fastest cheetah can not be compared. When it prey body meal, it will prey with strong legs to crush the bones, bone fragments in the bone marrow taking. Terror bird's body and ostrich are very similar, but the terror birds, it is a carnivore, has a strong legs, fast-Benz in South America millions of years ago, heavy powerful claws can be put to death their prey. Terror birds, the smallest species in the family, only 8 kilograms, which in addition do not have wings, the physical characteristics very similar with the Eagle, the largest type size 3 meters high, weighs 200 kg. In 27 million years ago to 150 million years ago, the Earth, the dinosaur is undoubtedly the terror birds successor, on the ground to become the most terrible predators. Cause extinction Bird life in the terror of that period, or a drift away from the South American continental plate, and other land in this isolated world, no stronger predatory terror birds, animals and compete at the same time, terror birds, and no predators, so it became South America's dominant. However, about 300 million years ago, South America, North American continental plates collide, live from North America and the predatory animals such as saber-toothed tiger jaguar figure also appears in South America. Some archaeologists believe that it is precisely because the South, the North American continent collision, resulting in a large number of predatory animals into North America, South America, the brutal nature of competition, the terror birds gradually withdrew from the strong predatory animals out, and slowly die out. Currently, scientists terror birds living habits are poorly understood, archaeologists discovered a complete skeleton of terror birds, very few fossils. Any one of the world today can not Fei Xiangniao class size is not larger than the terror birds, the ostrich's size large, there are similarities with the terror birds, but it is a typical vegetarian, but not as good as terror birds, ostrich body as strong, dynamic, and more non-predatory savage bloodthirsty habits.
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Height: 3 m Weight: 200 kg Time: 27 million years ago to 150 million years ago Location: South America Terror birds living in the years 2700 to 150 million years ago, the now all extinct. It may have originated in Eurasia, the Americas came after the top of the food chain because there is no living rival, once evolution was very great, until a more ferocious cats gradually fading into the Americas.
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3 meters tall terror birds, weighing 200 kilograms, is a bird can not fly, the now extinct giant bird family known as terror birds. They like meat hunting instinct that can swallow a dog, but also has amazing running speed, even in the world today run the fastest cheetah can not be compared. When it prey body meal, it will prey with strong legs to crush the bones, bone fragments in the bone marrow taking. Terror bird's body and ostrich are very similar, but the terror birds, it is a carnivore, has a strong legs, fast-Benz in South America millions of years ago, heavy powerful claws can be put to death their prey. Terror birds, the smallest species in the family, only 8 kilograms, which in addition do not have wings, the physical characteristics very similar with the Eagle, the largest type size 3 meters high, weighs 200 kg. In 27 million years ago to 150 million years ago, the Earth, the dinosaur is undoubtedly the terror birds successor, on the ground to become the most terrible predators.
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Cause extinction
Bird life in the terror of that period, or a drift away from the South American continental plate, and other land in this isolated world, no stronger predatory terror birds, animals and compete at the same time, terror birds, and no predators, so it became South America's dominant. However, about 300 million years ago, South America, North American continental plates collide, live from North America and the predatory animals such as saber-toothed tiger jaguar figure also appears in South America. Some archaeologists believe that it is precisely because the South, the North American continent collision, resulting in a large number of predatory animals into North America, South America, the brutal nature of competition, the terror birds gradually withdrew from the strong predatory animals out, and slowly die out. Currently, scientists terror birds living habits are poorly understood, archaeologists discovered a complete skeleton of terror birds, very few fossils. Any one of the world today can not Fei Xiangniao class size is not larger than the terror birds, the ostrich's size large, there are similarities with the terror birds, but it is a typical vegetarian, but not as good as terror birds, ostrich body as strong, dynamic, and more non-predatory savage bloodthirsty habits.