Every Eons video ever (minus Shorts and podcasts). Join hosts Michelle Barboza-Ramirez, Kallie Moore, and Blake de Pastino as they take you on a journey through the history of life on Earth. From the dawn of life in the Archaean Eon through the Mesozoic Era — the so-called “Age of Dinosaurs” -- right up to the end of the most recent Ice Age.
Curated by: PBS Eons (263 videos)
PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station, go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ↓ More info below ↓ About 5 million years ago, a new predator made its way from the south and onto the coastal plains of North America. It was a giant, flightless, carnivorous bird and came to be known by one of the coolest and most richly earned nicknames in all of paleontology: the terror bird. Correction! Thanks to Ben Creisler for pointing out that at 4:10, we mixed up the Paleogene Period with the Neogene Period. We regret the error and hope you still find these birds as terrifying as we do. Thanks to Julio Lacerda and Studio 252mya for the Titanis illustration. You can find more of Julio's work here: https://252mya.com/gallery/julio-lacerda Produced for PBS Digital Studios. Want to follow Eons elsewhere on the internet? Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/eonsshow Twitter - https://twitter.com/eonsshow Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/eonsshow/ References: http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/2/8/e1600883 https://www.britannica.com/place/Gondwana-supercontinent http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20150727-the-reign-of-the-terror-birds http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2006/10/terror-birds-bigger-and-faster http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2015/04/new-species-terror-bird-discovered http://hoopermuseum.earthsci.carleton.ca/flightless/phorus.htm https://www.livescience.com/40311-pleistocene-epoch.html https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/florida-vertebrate-fossils/species/titanis-walleri http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6313741.stm https://neotropical.birds.cornell.edu/Species-Account/nb/species/relser1/overview https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=4073 https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/files/6313/9447/0040/bulletin-gouldquitmyerlowres.pdf http://www.jstor.org/stable/40035724 http://www.bio-nica.info/Biblioteca/MacFadden2007TerrorBirdsRedated.pdf https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/24942595.pdf http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/wol1/doi/10.1111/geb.12504/abstract http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0011856 http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/272/1574/1769 https://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/08/0801_050801_terrorbirds.html