Artist's Rendering of Terror Bird and Prey (IMAGE)

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Artist's Rendering of Terror Bird and Prey

Caption

The terror bird Andalgalornis brings its powerful beak down in a hatchet-like jab to attack its prey, a peculiar cat-sized herbivorous mammal called Hemihegetotherium. 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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Illustration by Marcos Cenizo, courtesy of the Museo de La Plata.

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Embargoed until 5 p.m. EDT, Wednesday, Aug. 18, 2010. Illustration by Marcos Cenizo, courtesy of the Museo de La Plata.

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