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Teeth marks suggest ‘terror bird’ was killed by reptile 13 million years ago

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Victoria Gill

Science correspondent, BBC News

Link et al/Biology Letters The image shows an artist's impression of a terror bird being attacked by a caiman, a large crocodile-like predator. The caiman is emerging from a river and grabbing the panicked bird by its leg. This depicts a scene that scientists believe could have taken place 13 million years ago in Colombia. Link et al/Biology Letters

The researchers say the terror bird did not survive the encounter

Teeth marks made on the leg bone of a large avian reptile known as a terror bird 13 million years ago suggest…

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