When Antarctica was lush with forests during the Eocene, there was a carnivorous bird that had a curved beak and terrifying claws.
Reconstruction of the Antarctic terror bird hunting the Notoungulate otiolofos regueroi. The terror bird — an extinct group of carnivorous birds that once dominated the current territory of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Uruguay after the extinction of dinosaurs — persisted between 23 million years ago and up to about 17 thousand years ago.
, a paleo-ornithologist at the National Museum of Natural History of Uruguay . This beast could also weigh 220 pounds and effortlessly tear flesh.suggests that the terror bird was also at the top of the food chain in Antarctica, much earlier than previously thought at around 50 million years ago.
During this period, the fauna was predominantly marine, with creatures like penguins and sharks. On land, marsupial mammals and ungulates prevailed, nearly all of which were herbivores, except for a few small species that fed on insects.
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