Terror Bird Skull with Human and Eagle Skulls (IMAGE)

Ohio University

Terror Bird Skull with Human and Eagle Skulls

Caption

This is a fossil skull of the terror bird Andalgalornis, compared with the skull of a modern-day golden eagle and a human skull for scale. Andalgalornis was an extinct, 4.5-feet-tall, flightless predatory bird found as 6-million-year-old fossils in northwestern Argentina.

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Courtesy of Ohio University.

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