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Terror Birds; Phorusracids, back in the future?
Topic Started: Sep 11 2008, 07:27 AM (3,946 Views)
Spartan Delta	Sep 11 2008, 07:27 AM Post #1
Infant Posts: 93 Group: Members Member #76 Joined: Sep 10, 2008 Gender: Private	Um, I should ask... ...Aside from "the Future is Wild", are there any other chances of the Phorusracids re-evolving?

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ATEK Azul	Sep 22 2008, 12:17 PM Post #31
Transhuman Posts: 2,416 Group: Members Member #81 Joined: Sep 20, 2008 Gender: Private Nationality: usa	i was woundering what about pigdeons(am i spelling that right) they walk a lot on the ground and thanks to humans they have a taste for any thing including meat
	I am dyslexic, please ignore the typo's!
Carlos	Sep 22 2008, 12:42 PM Post #32
Adveho in me Lucifero Posts: 11,702 Group: Members Member #5 Joined: May 31, 2008 Gender: Male Nationality: Portugayse Favorite Quote: Blame is the playing of children and is given to many like a gift that cannot be returned. Acceptance is the tool of the mature that is rarely loaned out.	Pidgeons are herbivores. How can they develop carnivore forms if they eat plant matter?
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Sliver Slave	Sep 22 2008, 03:37 PM Post #33
I'm going back to basics. Posts: 1,857 Group: Away Staff Member #30 Joined: Jul 6, 2008 Gender: Male Nationality: Canadian. Just like Phasey!	Maybe an emu-like pigeon?
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ATEK Azul	Sep 22 2008, 03:42 PM Post #34
Transhuman Posts: 2,416 Group: Members Member #81 Joined: Sep 20, 2008 Gender: Private Nationality: usa	hay i think they could evolve becouse if you go too alot of places in citys parks, parking lots and any where theres food near by you can see pigeons fighting over all types of droped meat espeicialy but not limited too hot dogs
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Carlos	Sep 22 2008, 03:47 PM Post #35
Adveho in me Lucifero Posts: 11,702 Group: Members Member #5 Joined: May 31, 2008 Gender: Male Nationality: Portugayse Favorite Quote: Blame is the playing of children and is given to many like a gift that cannot be returned. Acceptance is the tool of the mature that is rarely loaned out.	Well, pidgeons would be among the last birds to become terror bird like; even robins are more carnivorous than pidgeons
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Spartan Delta	May 8 2009, 12:13 PM Post #36
Infant Posts: 93 Group: Members Member #76 Joined: Sep 10, 2008 Gender: Private	Yeah, but with our race, their's no tellin' what they'll do. XD But as for natural evolution, perhaps this design could work? http://dromornis.deviantart.com/art/New-Terror-Bird-109092575 Found this on Deviantart. Made by another user! ^^ Perhaps this is the face (or is it 'beak'...) of our culprit?
Carlos	May 8 2009, 01:54 PM Post #37
Adveho in me Lucifero Posts: 11,702 Group: Members Member #5 Joined: May 31, 2008 Gender: Male Nationality: Portugayse Favorite Quote: Blame is the playing of children and is given to many like a gift that cannot be returned. Acceptance is the tool of the mature that is rarely loaned out.	It was drawn by the same person who created this site: no other than William Snyder, who uses now the username "Proletarian". Originally a seriema descendent, and even if he considered making it a descendent of secretary birds I prefer it to be a Caramiforme; I don't care if seriemas are too aerial to produce terror birds, raptors don't have such a small beak!
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Black_Panther	May 8 2009, 06:54 PM Post #38
Adolescent Posts: 472 Group: Members Member #56 Joined: Aug 17, 2008 Gender: Private Nationality: Mexico	I don't know man. Perhaps the Caracara and maybe those burrowing owls; and the Secretary Bird. A bigger, stronger Secretary Bird would be hell for anything without horns or other defenses. Also, herons. I remember seeing predatory herons in Volkov's page.
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colddigger	May 8 2009, 08:46 PM Post #39
Joke's over! Love, Parasky Posts: 9,470 Group: Members Member #143 Joined: Feb 28, 2009 Nationality: Canadian. Just like Phasey! Favorite Quote: "If it weren't for the gutter my mind would be homeless!" - BaliTiger23	The kori bustard seems promising.
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Toad of Spades	May 8 2009, 10:08 PM Post #40
Clorothod Posts: 624 Group: Members Member #114 Joined: Dec 27, 2008 Nationality: United States Favorite Quote: Street smart is just an excuse for dumb people to use the word smart to describe themselves.	How about cassowaries, they are omnivorous. Besides eating plant items, they will eat small invertebrates, small vertebrates, and carrion. What if they started out eating their attackers that got killed with their defensive claws. It isn't too much of a stretch for them to kill to eat large marsupials and emu descendants as well as eating plant items, becoming the avian equivilant of a bear. Edited by Toad of Spades, May 8 2009, 10:14 PM.
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Carlos	May 9 2009, 01:46 AM Post #41
Adveho in me Lucifero Posts: 11,702 Group: Members Member #5 Joined: May 31, 2008 Gender: Male Nationality: Portugayse Favorite Quote: Blame is the playing of children and is given to many like a gift that cannot be returned. Acceptance is the tool of the mature that is rarely loaned out.	Out of all ratites, cassowaries are the ones most likely to develop predatory forms. If they go extinct, though, try the emu. Basically, any terrestrial bird that has a considerable amount of animal matter on its diet can become a terror bird like form, though things like the secretary bird, the seriema, herons and rails would be the most likely candidates for a new flightless carnivore
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SSJRaptog	May 9 2009, 07:19 AM Post #42
Adolescent Posts: 216 Group: Members Member #153 Joined: Mar 22, 2009 Nationality: Dutch Favorite Quote: I used to be perfect. Now I"m even better	How about coots and oystercatchers? Would they have the potential to evolve into terror bird-like predators? Just wondering because coots are omnivorous and oystercatchers feed on worms and other small marine invertebrates. In my Mission Wild Future project, I do have a sheep-sized predatory decendant of the coot, known as the helmeted spinesnapper. And just recently, I got the idea of a six foot tall decendant of the oystercatcher that probes for rabbits and other small mammals in dunes.
Carlos	May 9 2009, 12:09 PM Post #43
Adveho in me Lucifero Posts: 11,702 Group: Members Member #5 Joined: May 31, 2008 Gender: Male Nationality: Portugayse Favorite Quote: Blame is the playing of children and is given to many like a gift that cannot be returned. Acceptance is the tool of the mature that is rarely loaned out.	I don't know, there are so many more terrestrial birds that would get into that niche first...
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Spartan Delta	May 10 2011, 09:14 AM Post #44
Infant Posts: 93 Group: Members Member #76 Joined: Sep 10, 2008 Gender: Private	*shudders* ...the thought...of killer, man-eating pigeons...that stand on their tippy-toes... o_o" ...scary, dude. You peoples are AWESOME! But y'know, I just had another thought. What about the Penguins? I mean, remember they had those big aquatic birds in the Future is Wild show. But how far could that go? Would we wind up with, dare I say... ...MOBY DUCK?!?! Edited by Spartan Delta, May 10 2011, 09:22 AM.
TAXESbutNano	Jun 26 2011, 09:05 AM Post #45
I'm going back to basics. Posts: 4,340 Group: Members Member #506 Joined: Feb 24, 2011 Gender: Male Nationality: English Favorite Quote: IT'S DJ JAZZY WORM JEFF!!! -JesseCox	I think they could evolve to be big and ferocious, but not because of TFiW. TFiW was made by a guy who really puts the 'speculative' into speculative evolution, and doesn't use the evolution. I, personally, think that they'd be stopped by *drools* leopard seals.
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