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Research on the melanosomes of terror birds reveal they were bright red, and had an appetite for pigs. “You didn’t want to be in this bird’s space when it was angry, it’s temper was truly epic.”
Source: royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article/2…

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Terror birds (Phorusrhacidae) ruled South America for ~40 Ma, but their growth was a mystery. New hindlimb osteohistology shows rapid, uninterrupted growth, heavy remodeling & cursorial stress in Oligocene Andrewsornis & Physornis.
Dreyer et al.: anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ar…

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hilarious how this is barely making any noise in these circles
nature.com/articles/s4159…
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@saltsmellyfa It’s possible, we know there’s dimorphism (2 distinct size morphs in the same formations) but don’t know for sure what the driver is. Pretty much open to interpretation, the males could be larger as in seriemas but it could be the other way around
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@randompaleonerd is the sexual dimorphism size? if so which gender was the larger?
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Finally, my longtime favorite - Titanis walleri, the last of the giant Phorusrhacids. Titanis is known from an array of fragmentary remains, so this is a best approximation. There is distinct adult size dimorphism described from the material, which is shown here. More info below!

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Over the past few years, I’ve made a few basic skeletal references for several Phorusrhacids for personal reference, which I’ve never had the chance to share. They cobble together a few existing skeletals (my own, and a few published ones), but should be good references!
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@randompaleonerd @HodariNundu @SergeiMerjeevs1 also are the size bars like the human size? sorry im really not good at scaling animals at all..😭
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When you've just slain a gator but terror birds won´t let you eat in peace :/ My latest attempt at Xenosmilus. And Titanis. Which is now estimated at just 5 feet tall or so it seems. Still a big bird tho. Doodle born from a convo with @SergeiMerjeevs1 #xenosmilus #titanis #gator

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@saltsmellyfa @HodariNundu @SergeiMerjeevs1 And here’s Xenosmilus! The red bar represents a few of the specimens sympatric with Titanis, and the blue bar represents a larger specimen found in a den site from a much younger bed. I typically stick to the red bar scaling when depicting Xenosmilus with Titanis.

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@saltsmellyfa @HodariNundu @SergeiMerjeevs1 Here you go! A lot of the material isn’t figured laterally, so the actual visible material here only visualizes a fraction of what is known (plus some pieces of other Phorusrhacids to fill in the blanks). Anything unfigured uses related taxa scaled to the proper measurements!
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Finally, my longtime favorite - Titanis walleri, the last of the giant Phorusrhacids. Titanis is known from an array of fragmentary remains, so this is a best approximation. There is distinct adult size dimorphism described from the material, which is shown here. More info below!
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Phorusrhacos longissimus
(References below)
#paleoart #drawing #dinosaur #terrorbird #Phorusrhacidae #Phorusrhacos

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Titanis walleri
(References below)
#paleoart #drawing #Titanis #dinosaur #terrorbird #phorusrhacidae

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@MesozoicDream @Juanyudocus Depends on the angle, Andalgalornis has a bit of a domed forehead compared to other large Phorusrhacids but it’s nothing crazy
sketchfab.com/3d-models/anda…
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@randompaleonerd @Juanyudocus Interesting that skull looks "domed" from front view. Is this genuine or product of perspective?
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