Miocene (Huayquerian). The type species, A. magnificens, is sometimes called the giant teratorn. Argentavis was among the largest flying birds to ever...

been members of the Ciconiiformes. The heaviest flying bird ever, Argentavis magnificens, is part of a group, the teratorns, that is considered an ally of...

shorter and clearly more slender, indicating a more gracile build. Argentavis magnificens. A partial skeleton of this enormous teratorn was found from La...

scientists also have found that an ancient relative of the condor, Argentavis magnificens from South America, may have been the largest flying bird ever with...

extinct Argentavis magnificens. The skeletal wingspan (excluding feathers) of P. sandersi is estimated at 5.2 m (17 ft) while that of A. magnificens is estimated...

(2024) reconstruct endocast of Argentavis magnificens, and interpret its probable brain morphology as suggesting that Argentavis was a scavenger or even a...

comparatively slender frame. The heaviest bird ever capable of flight was Argentavis magnificens, the largest member of the now extinct family Teratornithidae, found...

"Ecological and reproductive constraints of body size in the gigantic Argentavis magnificens (Aves, Theratornithidae) from the Miocene of Argentina" (PDF). Ameghiniana...

2 m (7 ft 3 in) long. One of the heaviest flying birds of all time was Argentavis, a Miocene teratornithid. The immense bird had a wingspan estimated up...

of some of the larger members of the teratorn family, including Argentavis magnificens (the largest of the teratorn family), pushed them to scavenging...

the 1999 paper also differs from that of T. merriami and that of Argentavis magnificens in a number of ways, but most prominently in the fact that the facies...

sp. Urumaco Birds Argentavis magnificens Andalhualá Pelagornis chilensis, Spheniscidae indet. Bahía Inglesa Argentavis magnificens, Eudromia sp. Epecuén...

flight capabilities and distribution of the giant Miocene bird Argentavis magnificens (Teratornithidae)", Lethaia, 32 (4): 271–278, Bibcode:1999Letha...

indet. (Early Pliocene) †Teratornithidae Miller 1909– teratorns †Argentavis magnificens Campbell & Tonni 1980 (Late Miocene) †Aiolornis incredibilis (Howard...

limit for weight in flying birds is at about 25 kg, the exceptional Argentavis magnificens with its size and weight of a good-sized adult human notwithstanding...

second-largest flying birds known, surpassed only by the teratorn Argentavis magnificens. The head, from neck to bill-tip, measured about 40 centimetres...

Pliocene Shungura Formation, 1.94 My BP  Ethiopia An Ardeidae. Argentavis magnificens Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. Valid Kenneth E. Campbell, jr. Eduado P. Tonni...