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🗓️ 7 June 2023
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0:00.0 | I don't want to ruffle any feathers, but this is really the best way to describe terror |
0:06.2 | birds. |
0:07.2 | The terror birds are fucking amazing. |
0:10.8 | There's no discussion about it. |
0:12.0 | They are the most amazing group of birds that existed ever. |
0:17.6 | I'm Flora Lichtman and this is Scientific Americans Science Quickly. |
0:23.7 | And today is my swan song to Big Birds, Gargantuan Game. |
0:27.9 | That can huge feathered friends. |
0:30.0 | This is the last episode in this four-part series. |
0:33.4 | And the bird on deck for today, it's been on my lifelist for a while. |
0:37.3 | I'm squawking about one of the most frightening birds to ever pick out a place on planet earth. |
0:43.6 | The terror bird. |
0:46.0 | Let me introduce you to our terror bird expert. |
0:48.3 | My name is Federico Javier de Grange. |
0:52.2 | Everybody calls me Dino. |
0:53.6 | Dino is an avian paleontologist in Argentina, and he has a special relationship with |
0:58.4 | terror birds. |
0:59.4 | Oh, I love them. |
1:01.4 | I even have a tattoo of a terror bird. |
1:03.3 | So yes, they marked me forever. |
1:06.3 | I like to use the word bizarre, which is quite common here in my country. |
1:10.8 | With a bizarre role, terabers are bizarre birds, full of exclusive features and rare features |
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