Listen to The Ancients - Terror Birds by History Hit on Podcast Addict. What kind of predator needs no teeth to terrify its prey? The terror birds were enormous flightless hunters that ruled South America for millions of years, standing metres tall and built for a life of pursuit and slaughter.In this episode, Tristan Hughes is joined by palaeontologist Dr Steve Brusatte to explore the world of the phorusrhacids. What were these extraordinary birds really like? How did they dominate an isolated South America after the extinction of the dinosaurs? And what ultimately brought their predatory reign to an end?MORETyrannosaurs RexListen on AppleListen on Spotify The Rise of MammalsListen on AppleListen on Spotify The Ancients is now on YouTube! Watch here: @TheAncientsPodcastPresented by Tristan Hughes. Audio editor is Aidan Lonergan. The producer is Joseph Knight. The senior producer is Anne-Marie Luff.All music courtesy of Epidemic SoundsThe Ancients is a History Hit podcast.History Hit is part of Little Dot Studios, a Certified B Corp™Sign up to History Hit for hundreds of hours of original documentaries, with a new release every week and ad-free podcasts. Sign up at https://www.historyhit.com/subscribe. History Hit is part of Little Dot Studios, a Certified B Corp™ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Following the events of Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, in which the infamous dinosaurs of Isla Nublar are unleashed onto the mainland, the

Gothic horror in which an English palaeontologist discovers a frozen monster which thaws out on the train journey home and runs amok onboard the Trans-Siberian Express.

The Nominations are in for the 2026 BAFTA Scotland Awards. Ashley Storrie has received a Best Actress Television nomination for her role in Dinosaur as palaeontologist Nina.

The Nominations are in for the 2026 BAFTA Scotland Awards. Ashley Storrie has received a Best Actress Television nomination for her role in Dinosaur as palaeontologist Nina.

Expert palaeontologist Steve Brusatte takes us through The Story of Birds, in their 150-million-year history

An "extremely rare" fossil discovery in outback Queensland has revealed a new species of prehistoric bird that roamed Australia more than 100 million years ago. While digging in the remains of an ancient inland sea near Richmond, about 500km inland from Townsville, Kevin Petersen uncovered a long, slender bone. The then-curator of marine fossil museum Kronosaurus Korner sent a picture to University of New England palaeontologist Matt White, who drove to Richmond to have a look. "I was first looking at bones that looked quite similar in China … over 20 years ago, so I knew exactly what they were," Dr White said. A week later, another bone was found. "We usually find a lot of marine reptiles out at Richmond, but to find bird bones, it's extremely rare," Dr White said. Filing in the gaps Researchers used the fossilised tarsometatarsus, a fused foot bone found in birds, and tibiotarsus, the longest leg bone, to formally describe a new bird species, Tenuicruris piscanexum, which experts believe lived during the Cretaceous period about 100 million years ago. Dr White said the bird likely had teeth and was roughly the size of a scrub turkey, with completed fossils found in China and...

You don't need to be a palaeontologist to dig up dinosaur bones. These volunteers are unearthing a 95-million-year-old sauropod skeleton near Winton, proving all you need is curiosity and a keen eye.