This looks like a innocent bird skull right? It’s not! It is a skull of the Terror Bird, the largest carnivorous flightless bird that ever lived. At 10 feet tall and fast moving, this sucker was considered an Apex predator of its day. I had heard of this animal but it wasn’t until I was staring into this skull that I realized how terrifying it really was.  Its skull was 3 times the size of my own head!

This skull is about as big as a medium sized dog.

This skull is about as big as a medium sized dog.

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