Paleoworld- Killer Birds (Part 2)

[@guerillabeachholland4504]

This was a favourite in the 90's but this was presented as Jurassica on Discovery Europe. Used to watch this after dinner every weeknight. It was narrated by a woman, the versions I have seen. This killer birds episode is up with my favourites, always got freaked out by 2:22 and 3:05. Don't think the "arms" theory held up as later programmes about Phoroshacos and the like never mentioned arms and clawed hands.

[@mre053]

Amazing 💯🙏🏻

[@mitchellstucky4867]

i would have loved to see a paleoworld episode with andrewsarchus in it!

[@marcellus_h7930]

Argentavis was incredible. Compared with today's eagles, it could kill a mammal the size of an adult pig.

[@matiasdelgado7011]

As argentinian I love my country and their extint citizens.

[@Aluminata]

Yes..the killer birds are waiting in the 'wing' for humans to fall..

[@Junketh71]

This was a very good episode. Are you planning to upload any more of them in the future?

[@ianmalcolmislasornaandsand1192]

Michael Benton

[@bkjeong4302]

Terror birds did not actually get outcompeted by mammals.

[@germanomagnone]

I have two things to say. 1) the narrator is right that in a future maybe not far the "terror birds" will return in south america. 2) I have a lot of trouble understand how "terror birds" and Sparassodonta? (Thylacosmilus is the most famous member of the order).

[@Canadian_duck31]

Is there one about Raptors?

[@siewmj1]

it use to have claw and then it turn to wing and then turn back claw again. interesting.

[@babehunter1324]

0:08 Norht America* That's what made Titanis so "special"

[@whocareswho]

Special was its mating call too: "MURRRRRRICAH-CAARH-CAAAARH".

[@whocareswho]

...and if you wonder how a bird with no lips can utter the m-sound, remember a bird the size of a small building will do what it wants, no debate.

[@TheaSvendsen]

Isn’t the biggest flying bird the albatross?

[@ibtiago18]

The Albatross has the bigger wingspan, but the condor is heavier.

[@BrettCrawfordTransgirl1984]

true

[@matiasdelgado7011]

Modern, not prehistoric.

[@janpaolobagares7319]

they uncovered just one humerus bone from an unknown creature and have already concluded that an animal such as argentavis existed? that's bs.

[@ibtiago18]

No! The documentary doesn't tell you the all story. They found that bone and compared it with the same bone in other birds from the same family, the Teratorns, to determine it's size. But yes, everything else about Argentavis is still very expeculative. It's a problem with most documentaries that they often embellish facts for the sake of spectacle.

[@matiasdelgado7011]

@@ibtiago18 it´s less exagerated than the contemporaty size calculated for the liopleurodon in the 90s.

[@ibtiago18]

@@matiasdelgado7011 I wasn't talking about the size estimates for Argentavis, which don't differ that much nowadays. I was talking about how documentaries often go to much into the entertainment side and sacrifice their educatinal value due to that. This one doesn't explain how paleontologists could infer so much from a single bone. Documentaries about the Africa often show Lions and Cheethas succeding on their hunts to many times. Other documentaries focus all their time to well know animals, both extant and extinct, and neglect other very interesting but not so well known species.

[@matiasdelgado7011]

​@@ibtiago18 so, for you Argentavis is a hoax or its size was duplicated in the episode?