Illustration of a terror hen and different animals that will have lived in what’s now Antarctica on the identical time
C. Acosta Hospitaleche & W. Jones/Palaeontological Affiliation 2024
A 2-metre-tall flightless hen could have been the highest predator in what’s now Antarctica 50 million years in the past.
Two 8-centimetre fossil claws discovered on Seymour Island, close to the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula, belonged to a big household of comparable birds that palaeontologists name terror birds, based on an evaluation by Carolina Acosta Hospitaleche on the Nationwide College of La Plata in Argentina and Washington Jones on the…
