Illustration of a terror bird and other animals that may have lived in what is now Antarctica at the same time C. Acosta Hospitaleche & W. Jones/Palaeontological Association 2024
A 2-metre-tall flightless bird may have been the top predator in what is now Antarctica 50 million years ago.
Two 8-centimetre fossil claws found on Seymour Island, near the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula, belonged to a large family of similar birds that palaeontologists call terror birds, according to an analysis by at the National University of La Plata in Argentina and at the National Museum…
