This three-foot-tall parrot proves New Zealand is the mecca of giant weird birds This three-foot-tall parrot proves New Zealand is the mecca of giant weird birds By Sara Chodosh SEE MORE ...

Nearly 20 years ago, while repairing a fence on his ranch in Colombia, fossil collector César Perdomo found the middle leg bone of a bird. The 12-million-year-old fossil, known as a tibiotarsus ...

While the specimen consists only of a fragmentary portion of a lower leg bone known as the left tibiotarsus, its size led the researchers to suggest that it may correspond to one of the largest ...

Mostly everyone assumes that chickens were the first bird to be domesticated. But ... More tibiotarsus; 4, tarsometatarsus; 5, humerus; 6, carpometacarpus; 7, tibiotarsus; and 8 ...

The end of a terror bird’s left tibiotarsus, a lower leg bone in birds equivalent to that of a human tibia or shin bone, dates back to the Miocene epoch around ...

The fossil, the end of a left tibiotarsus, a lower leg bone in birds equivalent to that of a human tibia or shin bone, dates back to the Miocene epoch around 12 million years ago.

Closely studying the tibiotarsus revealed secrets of the bird’s life — and death. Tooth-like marks along the broken bone are similar to those made by an extinct caiman called a purussaurus. The giant ...

The fossil only comprises the distal portion of a left tibiotarsus, a lower leg bone in birds analogous to the human tibia or shin bone. It belongs to a Phorusrhacid, an extinct bird.

The fossil, the end of a left tibiotarsus, a lower leg bone in birds equivalent to that of a human tibia or shin bone, dates back to the Miocene epoch around 12 million years ago. The bone, with deep ...

The 12-million-year-old fossil, known as a tibiotarsus, belonged to a now-extinct creature in the Phorusrhacidae family, which was made up of mostly flightless, giant, meat-eating birds known ...