Phorusrhacids again

Darren Naish wrote four posts recently on these fascinating prehistoric birds. I linked to the first couple earlier; for convenience's sake I'm going to link to all four of them now.

Terror birds

More on phorusrhacids: the biggest, the fastest, the mostest out-of-placest

Giant hoatzins of doom

Goodbye, my giant predatory, cursorial, flightless hoatzin



Phorusrhacos longissimus painting by Zdenek Burian (1905-1981).