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The terror bird Andalgalornis brings its powerful beak down in a hatchet-like jab to kill prey.

Credit: Marcos Cenizo

The terror bird Andalgalornis, an extinct flightless predatory bird found as a fossil in Argentina.

Credit: Witmer Lab

1 posted on 08/19/2010 11:01:04 AM PDT by decimon
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To: SunkenCiv

Peron ping.


2 posted on 08/19/2010 11:03:50 AM PDT by decimon
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To: decimon
...Used Powerful Beak to Jab Like Boxer

Boy, Carly Fiorina better watch herself!

3 posted on 08/19/2010 11:07:53 AM PDT by Wilum (Never loaded a nuke I didn't like)
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To: decimon
Ancient "Terror Bird" Used Powerful Beak to Jab Like Boxer

Barbara???

4 posted on 08/19/2010 11:12:09 AM PDT by SoldierDad (Proud Papa of two new Army Brats! Congrats to my Soldier son and his wife.)
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Sounds like something for these guys:

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7 posted on 08/19/2010 11:21:59 AM PDT by stylecouncilor (What Would Jim Thompson Do?)
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Even if this information was in any way useful, it is virtually complete speculation that can never be verified. How much taxpayer money has been wasted to satisfy someone’s idle curiosity about a bird that’s been extinct for 60 million years?


9 posted on 08/19/2010 11:27:53 AM PDT by Hacklehead (Liberalism is the art of taking what works, breaking it, and then blaming conservatives.)
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10 posted on 08/19/2010 11:37:10 AM PDT by TSgt (And the war came.)
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13 posted on 08/21/2010 11:20:53 AM PDT by SunkenCiv ("The bad jazz a cat blows wails long after he's cut out." -- Lord Buckley)
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