#oh my god this turned into a rant about terror birds lmao

[godzillawithahoodie7]

For everyone's convenience:

If you're wondering where terror birds fit into the equation, they're cariamiforms, meaning their closest living relatives are seriemas...which barely do them any justice since it's like comparing big cats to mongooses. Psilopterus is one of the smallest terror birds and is still horribly robust compared to a seriema, as you can see here

The more famous giant phorusrhacines, like Phorusrhacos itself and Kelenken? Yeah uh...

...big boi. Big, robust boi. Far from the lanky carnivorous ostriches you're used to. These things were like non-avian theropods resurrecting themselves, even down to these guys undoing ancestral bird cranial neoteny in order to strengthen their jaw muscles for a good bite.

the only bad part about going to the zoo is hearing adult men confidently tell their kids or gfs objectively incorrect information about the animals we’re looking at and having to remain silent. do u know the restraint it takes to say nothing when a grown adult man tells someone “falcons are in the same family as eagles” next to me? no babygirl. no.