Terror birds bone (IMAGE)

Johns Hopkins Medicine

Terror birds bone

Caption

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 12 million years ago.

Credit

Degrange et al.

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