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Where There’s Joy in a Terror Bird

In Colombia, a fossil-collecting rancher has found a giant, flightless killer from 13 million years ago — and a missing link to the region’s evolutionary history.

© Federico Rios for The New York Times

César Perdomo, a rancher and fossil hunter in Colombia’s Tatacoa Desert, with a terror bird fossil. Until his find, little was known about how these carnivores spread across the Americas millions of years ago.
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