#seriemas

So it turns out Terror Birds/Cariamiformes are, in every possible sense, "Dromaeosaurs 2: The Quickening"

New episode of Through Time and Clades! This week, we meet a group of raptorial birds that has re-entered the ancestral theropod niche of being primarily ground-running hunters. These are the cariamiforms, and though they survive only as two modestly-sized South American species today, they once roamed across North America and Europe as well, even reigning in some regions as terrifying apex predators.