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Martiitram β Titanis hunt
Published: 2015-02-18 20:21:12 +0000 UTC; Views: 1110; Favourites: 51; Downloads: 1
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A pair of Titanis walleri have recently killed a member of the recently evolved genus Equus, around 1.8 mya. Soon they will go extinct, but for now, they still live.Related content
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Amazing work !
I think they died out somesort of disease Or similiar case.
Most avians adapte competition very well in other cases
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Thank you! Well, it is indeed a possibility, but I'm still not convinced by the idea of it being the only cause.
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You are very welcome ! Very talented paleoartworks !
Well my main theory is these species of Terror Birds lived with most Megafauna until the real extinxction but the extremelly lack of fossils Δ°s the main reason most paleontolgists think these species became extinct before megafauna predators like Similodons & Dire wolves. (I mean recent Titanis fossils found Underwater at Rivers ! 
But the disease theory I watched from a documentary is just too Δ°nteresting !
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Well, chances are Titanis' didn't disappear from competition, which as Darren Naish has pointed several times, is a highly overrated explanation to Titanis' extinction, as evidenced by multiple factors. We have evidence for asteroid impacts, several climate changes, etc, and frankly, it's a bit strange for an animal that has managed to coexist for over 3 million years with the mammalian predators that are said to have outcompeted them to suddenly go extinct because of them. Now I don't know why Titanis went extinct, but at the time, I doubt it was from competition.
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Also: if you mean the Clovis comet by the asteroid impact, itβs been debunked multiple times. Itβs a dead hypothesis walking.
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BTW can you point out where Darren Naish said that? I agree with him, just wanting some citations I can use
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I am sure more Fossil findings will clear it out That Titannis'es too died out with the rest of Δ°ce Age fauna
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considering they coexisted with carnivorans, that theory seems to be another case of mammal supremacist crap.
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Keep the crap out of this, would ya. Also, I know it's wrong, some other guy told me that and I should probably edit this, but if you haven't noticed, this thing is over a month old.
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Fantastic!Β I really like the downy texture you gave their feathers, you don't see that too often in terror bird reconstructions.
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Thanks! Probably should have worked more on the grass and added a background.
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Terror Birds, Smilodons, and Equus. Oh my!
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YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!! B)
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This is an awesome drawing, the grass could use some work but the animals look superbly realistic and I sure see them as realistic. The left one is for me the jewel in the pic. The feathery texture you gave it and that realistic head and beautiful beak <3 J'adore !
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