#terror bird

[cypressure]

paleostream flocking 3/29 -- Mobulavermis + Saltasaurus + Simurghia + P. lemoinei and bachmanni

#paleoblr #paleostream #paleoart #pterosaurs #dinosaurs #sauropods #saltasaurus #simurghia #terror bird #psilopterus #mobulavermis #digital art #procreate

[knuppitalism-with-ue]

Results from the Flocking #paleostream!

Mobulavermis, Saltasaurus, Simurghia and Psilopterus

#paleoart #sciart #paleostream #palaeoblr #cretaceous #dinosaur #pterosaur #bird #terror bird

[the-paleoraptor]

“Arid Wanderer”

Amidst a drought Patagornis, a terror bird, wanders about in search of prey. a hard task in a desolate land.

#paleoart #paleontology #digital art #patagornis #terror bird #phorusrhachid

[the-dragon-girl-27]

drawing along with the flocking paleostream

#Mobulavermis #Saltasaurus #Simurghia #Psilopterus #paleostream #paleoart #paleozoic #mesozoic #cenozoic #pterosaur #terror bird #sauropod #cambrian #dragon draws creatures #im really happy with how the cambrian critter turned out i like the colors n stuff like thats what i want my paleoart to feel like yaknow #it looks very like.... natural #meanwhile its uhh quite obvious i cant draw sauropods

[shpepyao]

I didn’t like the game itself much, but this silly bird lives in my head rent free It’s so fun to draw tbh

#garten of banban #opila bird #game #game fanart #terror bird #pink #yellow #violet #traditional art #sketchpage #bird

[sylvanticus]

A gilded Kelenken for you ♥

#khyrosart #art #artists on tumblr #kelenken #Kelenken guillermoi #terror bird #Phorusrhacidae #extinct #extinct animals #prehistoric #bird #avian #dinosaur #not a dino but I'm adding the tag #paleo art #paleoart

[caleod]

29-1-24

#moleskine #sketchbook #sketch #daily #dailyart #dailydrawing #dailypainting #dailysketch #sketchaday #artoftheday #art #artbook #artists on tumblr #watercolor #gouache #painting #fineliner #drawing #terror bird #bird #animal #raptor

[ppaleoartistgallery]

Paleostream 30/03/2024

here's this weeks #Paleostream sketches!!!

today we drew Mobulavermis, Saltasaurus, Simurghia, and Psilopterus (i drew P. lemoninei)

#Paleostream #paleoart #paleontology #digital art #artists on tumblr #digital artwork #palaeoart #digital illustration #id in alt text #sciart #dinosaur #bird #terror bird #pterosaur #invertebrate #sauropod #paleoblr #palaeoblr #Mobulavermis #Saltasaurus #Simurghia #Psilopterus #Psilopterus lemoninei #sketch #quick sketch

[arminreindl]

Paraphysornis model at the Natural History Museum Vienna

#nhmw #natural history museum vienna #paraphysornis #terror bird #phorusrhacid

[boiledegghole]

terror bird

#boiledegg art #paleoart #terror bird

[cypherdecypher]

Animal of the Day!

Titanis (Titanis walleri)

(Photo from Florida Museum of Natural History)

Conservation Status- Extinct

Habitat- North America

Estimated Size (Weight/Length)- 150 kg; 2 m tall

Diet- Mammals

Time Period- Pliocene; Early Pleistocene

Cool Facts- Titanis was one of the larger terror birds that stalked the plains of North America for thousands of years. Incapable of flight, Titanis most likely relied on its long legs to outrun its prey. While a skull has never been found, it is assumed that Titanis had the massive, ax-like beak other terror birds of the time period had, leading to interpretations of what its complete skeleton may look like. Due to having excellent movement in their neck, it is believed that Titanis would chase down its prey and batter the animal to death with its massive beak. Titanis most likely went extinct due to competition from new predators, especially bears and big cats.

Rating- 11/10 (Could outrun a horse.)

#Animal of the day #Animals #Birds #Terror bird #Friday #January 13 #Titanis #biology #science #conservation #the more you know #Paleoweek #Paleolithic #Prehistoric #Megafauna #Extinct animals #Paleontology

[hyydraworks]

So I wasn’t sure if I would be done with these guys in time, but one last addition to today’s Etsy update: Axebeaks with little gear on their backs. 

They are basically a million things I love and have wanted to do, putting little fabric guys on ceramic critters, D&D, Terror Birds.  Hope you like em!

#Dungeons and Dragons #dnd #dnd fanart #axebeak #bird #terror bird #multi media #ceramics #stoneware #pottery #handmade #pearlescent glaze #hummingbird #kestrel #dnd creature #D&D #fantasy #monster #creature #animal #collective #figurine #cute #birb #friend #little beady eyed orange and tan lady is my absolute fave #almost couldnt sell her #but I have plans for smol axebeaks #let me tell you #gunna make a smollini for myself

[kingcheezits]

#prehistoric #terror bird #paleontology #paleontology meme #paleontologymeme

[etchif]

Kelenken!

#etchif art #kelenken #paleoart #paleontology #terror bird #paleoblr #palaeoblr #art #none of you are allowed to shoot me in the head now

[otussketching]

The massive mother Devincenzia, one of the biggest terror birds to ever walk the earth, looked dissaprovingly at what was before her, with a piercing gaze coming from her eyes, over two metres off the forest floor. She was not amused, to put it mildly.

Her two chicks had hatched recently, and had proven themselves to be quite a wingful. They were always up to no good, chasing small animals, running over logs, and getting into mischief. Now, they had been running around a clearing, which had a strange thing among a huge pile of leaves.

The Devincenzia was naturally suspicious of strange objects, and the strange black box that was among the leaves. Occasionally it made a clicking sound. The terror bird didn’t know what it was. As far as she was concerned, it may have been a strange vine. But she didn’t like it. She decided to lead her little rascals elsewhere.

#paleoart #palaeoblr #stylized paleoart #terror bird #devincenzia #miocene #palaeo cartoon #birblr #bird art #extinct bird

[alphynix]

April Fools 2023: How Titanis Lost The Right To Bear Arms

Huge, flightless, and carnivorous, the phorusrhacids (or terror birds) were some of the largest apex predators in South America during its Cenozoic "splendid isolation" as an island continent – and they were possibly the closest that birds ever came to reclaiming the ecological roles of their extinct non-avian theropod dinosaur relatives. 

And for a while in the late 1990s and early 2000s there was a hypothesis that they'd even re-evolved clawed hands.

This idea was based on the wing bones of Titanis walleri, the only terror bird known to have dispersed northwards during the Great American Biotic Interchange when North and South America became connected via the Isthmus of Panama.

Living during the Pliocene and Pleistocene in Florida and Texas, between about 5 and 1.8 million years ago, Titanis stood around 1.5-1.8m tall (~5-6') and was heavily built, with long strong legs and a massive hooked beak. Remains of its small wings were incomplete and fragmentary but had seemingly unusual joints, with what looked like a stiffer wrist and more flexible "fingers" than other birds, which led paleontologist Robert Chandler to propose in 1994 that this terror bird species had modified its wings into clawed grasping arms similar to those of dromaeosaurs, used to restrain prey animals while its beak tore them apart.

But the idea of a giant murder-bird with added meathook-hands only lasted about a decade. Further investigation in 2005 showed that Titanis' arms weren't that weird after all – the same sort of joints are found in terror birds' closest living relatives, the seriemas, and so Titanis really had the same sort of small vestigial wings as many other large flightless birds.

…However, there still could have been some claws on there. Many modern birds actually have one or two small claws on their hands that aren't visible under their feathers, and terror birds like Titanis having something like that going on is completely plausible – they just wouldn't have been using them for any sort of specalized predatory function.

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#april fools #titanis claw hand hook bird claw #inaccurate paleoart #science illustration #paleontology #paleoart #palaeoblr #retrosaurs #titanis #phorusrhacid #terror bird #cariamiformes #bird #dinosaur #art